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YEAR  BOOK 


COMPILED  BY 

MARGARET  REINTZEL 


NEW  YORK 

E.  P.  DUTTON  &  COMPANY 

31  West  Twenty-third  Street 

1907 


Copyright,  by 

E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co, 

1895. 


IN 

GRATEFUL   MEMORY 

OF   MY 

TEACHERS. 


JANUARY. 

I  can  always  leave  off  talking  tuhen  I  hear  a  master 

play. 

Browning. 


THE   MUSICIAN'S   YEAR 
BOOK. 


January  First. 


Every  day  that  we  spend  without  learning 

something  is  a  day  lost. 

Beethoven. 

William  Beale  was  born  January  i,  1784. 
Lef6bvre  Wely  died  January  1,  1870. 

January  Second. 

In  January,  1822,  Maelzel  came  before  the 
public  with  his  metronome. 

"  One  must  not  only  learn  to  count  while 
playing,  but  make  the  playing  fit  the  count- 
ing." 

7 


8  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

January  Third. 

He  who  would  do  a  great  thing  well  must 
first  have  done  the  simplest  thing  perfectly. 

Cady. 

Henriette  Sontag  was  born  January  3, 
1806. 

Thomas  Ludford  Bellamy  died  January 

3>  l843- 

January  Fourth. 

The  study  of  the  history  of  music,  and  the 
hearing  of  masterworks  of  different  epochs, 
will  cure  one  of  vanity  and  self-adulation. 

Robert  Schumann. 

Ludwig  Ehlert  died  January  4,  1884. 


January  Fifth. 

A  rule  drawn  up  in   1653  in  Germany, 
signed  by  Emperor  Ferdinand  III. : 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  9 

"No  man  shall  dare  to  perform  on  dis- 
honorable instruments,  such  as  hurdy-gur- 
dies, bagpipes,  and  triangles,  which  beggars 
use  for  collecting  alms,  so  that  the  noble  art 
of  music  is  brought  into  contempt  by  them." 

January  Sixth. 

Music  is  a  stimulant  to  mental  exertion. 

D'Israeli. 

Max  Bruck  was  born  January  6,  1838. 
Taubert  died  January  6,  1891. 
Heinrich  Hertz  was  born  January  6,  1806. 
Rudolph  Kreutzer  died  January  6,  1831. 

January  Seventh. 

When  Thalberg  played  a  melody  it  stood 
out  in  bold  dynamic  relief ;  not  because  he 
pounded,  but  because  he  kept  the  accom- 
paniment duly  subdued. 

Christiani. 


IO  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Sigismund  Thalberg  was  born  January  7, 
1812. 

Robert  Nicolas  Bochsa  died  January  7, 
1856. 


January  Eighth. 

Without  enthusiasm  one  will  never  accom- 
plish anything  in  art. 

Robert  Schumann. 

Handel's  first  opera,  "  Almeria,"  was  pro- 
duced January  8,  1705. 

Hans  Guido  von  Bulow  was  born  January 
8,  1830. 


January  Ninth. 

Of  all  the  fine  arts  music  is  that  which  has 
most  influence  on  the  passions,  and  which 
the  legislator  ought  the  most  to  encourage. 

Napoleon  Bonaparte. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  II 

January  Tenth. 

If  all  were  determined  to  play  the  first 
violin  we  should  never  have  a  complete 
orchestra.  Therefore  respect  every  musi- 
cian in  his  proper  place. 

Robert  Schumann. 


January  Eleventh. 

You  should  no  more  play  without  phras- 
ing than  speak  without  inflection  and  gram- 
matical pauses. 

Charles  Landon. 

John  Field  died  January  n,  1837. 
Domenico    Cimarosa    died    January   11, 
1801. 

January  Twelfth. 

I  am  what  I  am  because  I  was  industri- 
ous ;  whoever   is   equally  sedulous  will   be 

equally  successful. 

J.  Sebastian  Bach. 


12  THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK. 

Arabella  Goddard  was  born  January  12, 
1836. 

January  Thirteenth. 

Genius  at  first  is  little  more  than  a  great 
capacity  for  receiving  discipline. 

George  Eliot. 

Heinrich  Hoffmann  was  born  January  13, 
1842. 

Ferdinand  Ries  died  January  13,  1838. 
Lud wig  Ehlert  was  born  January  13,  1825. 

January  Fourteenth. 

Music  is  a  discipline,  and  a  mistress  of 

order  and  good  manners. 

Martin  Luther. 

Luigi  Boccherini  was  born  January  14, 
1740. 

Francois  Joseph  Dizi  was  born  January 
14,  1780. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  1 3 


January  Fifteenth. 

Music  resembles  chess:  the  queen  (mel- 
ody) has  the  most  power,  but  the  king  (har- 
mony) turns  the  scale. 

Robert  Schumann. 


January  Sixteenth. 

The  principal  requisites  for  a  musician,  a 
fine  ear  and  a  swift  power  of  comprehension, 
come,  like  all  things,  from  above. 

Robert  Schumann. 


January  Seventeenth. 

When  an  artist  has  been  able  to  say,  "  I 

came,  I  saw,  I  conquered,"  it  has  been  at 

the  end  of  patient  practice. 

George  Eliot. 


14  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


January  Eighteenth. 

To  accompany  well  you  must  not  only  be 

a  good  musician,  but  you  must  be  mesmeric, 

sympathetic,  intuitive. 

Haweis. 

Arcangelo  Corelli  died  January  18,  1713. 
Stephen  Foster  died  January  18,  1864. 


January  Nineteenth. 

Sacrifice  all  the  trivialities  of  social  life  to 

thy  art. 

The  Odyssey. 

Ferdinand  David  was  born  January  19, 
1810. 

Louis  Joseph  Ferdinand  Harold  died 
January  19,  1833. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  I  5 

January  Twentieth. 

The  art  of  true  accompanying  lies  in  a 

willing  self-immolation. 

Haweis. 


January  Twenty-first. 

The  hallowed  melody  of  magic  song 

Does  to  creation  as  a  link  belong ; 

Blending  its  music  with  God's  harmony, 

As  rivers  melt  into  the  mighty  sea. 

Schiller. 

Parepa  Rosa  died  January  21,  1874. 


January  Twenty-second. 

"  Music  is  allied  to  the  highest  sentiments 
of  man's  moral  nature — love  of  God,  love  of 
country,  love  of  friends." 


1 6  THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK. 

January  Twenty -third. 

In  order  to  please  everybody  at  once  it  is 
necessary  to  compromise,  and  in  questions 
of  art  he  who  compromises  is  sure  to  disap- 
pear in  a  short  time. 

Richard  Wagner. 


January  Twenty-fourth. 

Let  not  a  day  pass,  if  possible,  without 

having  heard  some  fine  music,  read  a  noble 

poem,  or  seen  a  beautiful  picture. 

Goethe. 

Carlo  Farinelli  was  born  January  24,  1722. 
Baron  von  Flotow  died  January  24,  1883. 


January  Twenty-fifth. 

Sing  aloud  old  songs — the  precious  music 

of  the  heart. 

Wordsworth. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  17 

Robert  Burns  was  born  January  25, 1759. 
Parish  Alvars  died  January  25,  1849. 


January  Twenty-sixth. 

Music  in  the  best  sense  does  not  require 

novelty. 

Goethe. 

Frederick  Corder  was  born  January  26, 
1852. 

January  Twenty -seventh. 

From  whatever  side  and  with  whatever 
feeling  we  may  glance  at  Mozart,  we  always 
meet  with  the  genuine  and  pure  nature  of 
the  artist,  a  nature  filled  with  perennial  love, 
which  finds  only  joy  and  satisfaction  in  pro- 
ducing the  beautiful,  animated  with  the  spirit 

of  truth. 

Otto  Jahn. 

Johann  Wolfgang  Mozart  was  born  Janu- 
ary 27,  1756. 


1 8  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

January  Twenty-eighth. 

He  is  a  good  musician  who  understands 

the  music  without  the  score,  and  the  score 

without  the  music. 

Robert  Schumann. 

Louis  Joseph  Ferdinand  Herold  was  born 
January  28,  1791. 


January  Twenty-ninth. 

Music  washes  away  from  the  soul  the  dust 

of  every-day  life. 

Auerbach. 

Franz  Auber  was  born  January  29,  1784. 
Frederick  Cowen  was  born  January  29, 
1852. 

January  Thirtieth. 

As  the  true  poem  is  the  poet's  mind,  so 
true  expression  is  the  artist's  soul. 

Tapper. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  \q 

January  Thirty-first. 

There  was  a  time  when  I  talked  unwill- 
ingly of  Schubert,  whose  name,  I  thought, 
should  only  be  whispered  at  night  to  the 
trees  and  stars. 

Robert  Schumann. 

Franz  Peter  Schubert  was  born  January 
31,  1797- 


FEBRUARY. 

There  is  music  in  all  things  if  men  had  ears. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  23 


February  First. 

Save  Mendelssohn,  I  know  no  other  living 
artist  but  Bennett  who  has  so  much  to  say  at 
so  little  expense.  There  may  be  bolder  and 
more  gifted  ones,  but  none  more  neat  and 

tender. 

Robert  Schumann. 

Sterndale  Bennett  died  February  i,  1875. 


February  Seeond. 

Palestrina's  music  has  all  its  separate  parts 

so  beautiful  that  one  would  like  to  sing  them 

all  one's  self. 

Hauptmann. 

Giovanni  Palestrina  died  February  2, 1 594. 


24  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


February  Third. 

It  is  not  his  [Mendelssohn's]  genius  that 
surprises  me  and  compels  my  admiration,  for 
that  he  has  from  God.  No,  it  is  his  inces- 
sant toil,  his  bee-like  industry,  his  stern 
conscientiousness,    his    inflexibility    toward 

himself,  his  actual  adoration  of  art. 

Zelter. 

Felix  Mendelssohn-Bartholdy  was  born 
February  3,  1809. 

Emile  Prudent  was  born  February  3,  181 7. 


February  Fourth. 

Music  should  strike  fire  from  the  heart  of 

man,    and    bring    tears    from    the    eyes    of 

woman. 

Beethoven. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  25 

Michael  Costa  was  born  February  4, 1 8 1  o. 
Joseph  Artot  was  born  February  4,  181 5. 


February  Fifth. 

What  shall  I  say  of  Jenny  Lind  ?  This 
wonderful  astiste  stands  far  too  high  in  my 
estimation  to  be  dragged  down  by  common- 
place phrases  such  as  newspaper  writers  so 

copiously  indulge  in. 

Moscheles. 

Jenny  Lind  and  Otto  Goldschmidt  were 
married  February  5,  1852. 

Ole  Bull  was  born  February  5,  1810. 


February  Sixth. 

The  barriers  are  not  erected  that  can  say 

to  aspiring  talents  and  industry,  "  Thus  far 

and  no  farther." 

Beethoven. 


26  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


February  Seventh. 

True  art  endures  forever,  and  the  true  ar- 
tist delights  in  the  works  of  great  minds. 

Beethoven. 

William  Boyce  died  February  7,  1779. 


February  Eighth. 

Make  a  habit  to  go  into  music,  not  over 
it. 

Tapper. 

February  Ninth. 
Great  is  song  used  to  great  ends. 

Tennyson. 

Schroeder-Devrient  died  February  9,  i860. 
Johann  Ludwig  Dussek  was  born  Febru- 
ary 9,  1 761. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  2 "J 


February  Tenth. 

Love  your  instrument,  but  do  not  vainly 

suppose  it  the  highest  and  only  one. 

Schumann. 


February  Eleventh. 

Although  instrumental  music  cannot  be 
sung,  yet  the  player  may  render  by  adequate 
modulation  its  meaning,  and  the  sad  or  joy- 
ous thoughts  it  is  intended  to  express. 

Praetorius. 


February  Twelfth. 

Every  one  who  thinks  genius  can  be  with- 
out understanding,  thinks  without  under- 
standing himself. 

Jean  Paul. 


28  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


February  Thirteenth. 

The  understanding  is  not  a  vessel  which 
must  be  filled,  but  firewood,  which  needs  to 
be  kindled ;  and  love  of  learning  and  love 
of  truth  are  what  should  kindle  it. 

Plutarch. 

Richard  Wagner  died  February  13,  1883. 
Von  Biilow  died  February  13,  1894. 
Johann    Burgmuller    died    February    13, 
1874. 


February  Fourteenth. 

Have  you  real  talent  for  art  ?  Then  study 
music,  do  something  worthy  of  the  art,  and 
dedicate  your  whole  soul  to  the  beloved 
saint. 

Longfellow. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  29 

February  Fifteenth. 

When  any  master  holds 
'Twixt  chin  and  hand  a  violin  of  mine, 
He  will  be  glad  that  Stradivari  lived, 
Made  violins,  and  made  them  of  the  best. 

George  Eliot's  "  Stradivarius" 

Frederick  Ernst  was  born  February  15, 
1789. 

February  Sixteenth. 

Perfection  should  be  the  aim  of  every  true 

artist. 

Beethoven. 

Leopold    Damrosch     died     January     15, 
1885. 

February  Seventeenth. 

We  must  hear  Italian  music  among  the 

Italians.     German   music   can   be  enjoyed 

under  every  heaven. 

Schumann. 


3<D  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


February  Eighteenth. 

Paganini  is  the  turning-point  of  virtuosity. 

Schumann. 

Paganini  was  born  February  18,  1784. 


February  Nineteenth. 

Lightlier  move 

The  minutes  edged  with  music. 

Tennyson. 

Ernst  Sivori  died  February  19,  1894, 
Giovanni  Pacini  was  born  February  19, 
1796. 

February  Twentieth. 

I  will  live  alone  and  pour  my  pain  with 
passion  into  music,  where  it  turns  to  what 
is  best  within  my  better  self. 

George  Eliot. 

De  BeViot  was  born  February  20,  1802. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  3 1 


February  Twenty-first. 

The  most  talented  composers  of  the  pres- 
ent day  are  pianists — a  fact  that  has  been 

observed  during  former  epochs. 

Schumann. 

Carl  Czerny  was  born  February  21,  1791. 
Theodore  Doehler  died  February  21, 1856. 
John  Pyke  Hullah  died  February  21, 1884. 


February  Twenty-second. 

The  sole  aim  of  a  composer  should  be 

the  progress  of  his  art. 

Gluck. 

Niels  Wilhelm  Gade  was  born  February 
22,  1817. 

Alexander  Campbell  was  born  February 
22,  1764. 


32  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

February  Twenty-third. 

How  divine  is  the  vocation  of  art  ! 

Mendelssohn. 

February  Tiventy -fourth. 

Handel  is  the  unequaled  master  of  all 
masters.  Go,  turn  to  him  and  learn,  with 
few  means,  how  to  produce  such  great  effects. 

Beethoven. 

George  Frederick  Handel  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1684. 

Johann  Baptist  Cramer  was  born  Febru- 
ary 24,  1771. 

Arrigo  Boito  was  born  February  24,  1842. 

Gasparo  Spontini  died  February  24,  185 1. 

February  Twenty-fifth. 

In  music  you  will  soon  find  out  what  per- 
sonal benefit  there  is  in  being  serviceable. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  33 

Get  your  voice  disciplined  and  clear,  and 

think  only  of  accuracy.     If  you  have  any 

soul  worth  expressing  it  will  show  itself  in 

your  singing. 

Ruskin. 

Thomas  Moore  died  February  25,  1852. 

February  Twenty-sixth. 

Play  to  our  nobler  selves  a  strain  triumphant, 

To  victory  a  call! 
Then  in  the  hour  of  temptation 

We'll  soar  above  it  all. 

Francis  Albert  Doughty. 

February  Twenty-seventh. 

The  human  voice  is  really  the  foundation 

of  all  music. 

Wagner. 

Joseph  Victor  Capoul  was  born  February 
27,  1839. 


34  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

February  Twenty-eighth. 

I  love  not  the  men  whose  lives  are  not  in 

unison  with  their  works. 

Schumann. 


February  Twenty-ninth. 

Music  was  taught  to  Achilles  in  order  to 

moderate  his  passions. 

Homer. 

Gioacchimo  Rossini  was  born  February 
29,  1792. 

Parish  Alvars  was  born  February  29,  1816. 


MARCH. 

I  pant  for  music  that  is  divine. 

Shelley 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  37 


March  First. 

When  we  speak  of  grace,  enthusiasm,  pres- 
ence of  mind,  nobility,  and  warmth  of  feel- 
ing, who  does  not  think  of  Chopin  ? 

Schumann. 

Frederick  Chopin  was  born  March  i, 
1809. 

Moscheles  married  Charlotte  Embden 
March  i,  1825. 

Theodore  Kullak  died  March  1,  1882. 


March  Second. 

Faith  in  his  subject  is  an  indispensable 
requisite  in  the  work  of  an  artist. 

Mendelssohn. 

Sir  George  Alexander  Macfarren  was  born 
March  2,  1834. 


38  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

March  Third. 

Any  fool  can  play  fast,  but  it  takes  a  good  _ 

musician  to  play  slowly. 

Anon. 

March  Fourth. 

Artists  will  derive  additional   facility  of 

execution  from  hearing  and  cultivating  vocal 

as  well  as  instrumental  music. 

C.  P.  E.  Bach. 

Charles  Oberthur  was  born  March  4, 1819. 

March  Fifth. 

Pianistic  technique  implies,  in  its  widest 
sense,  a  faultless  mastery  of  every  mechan- 
ical difficulty   in   the   required  tempo,   and 

without  any  perceptible  effort. 

Christiani. 

Alfred  Jaell  was  born  March  5,  1830. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  39 

March  Sixth. 

True  genius,   so  far  from  imitating  the 

productions  of  others  which  command  its 

admiration,  is  only  impelled  to  new  efforts 

by  them. 

Weber. 

March  Seventh. 

A  composer  who  has  the  power  to  con- 
struct very  beautiful  works  of  art  in  a  cer- 
tain form  by  inventing  ideas,  and  by  show- 
ing in  a  new  light  ideas  not  invented  by 
him,  deserves  to   be  regarded   as  a  great 

composer. 

Engel. 

March  Eighth. 

True  art  is  the  result  of  knowledge  and 

inspiration. 

Berlioz. 


40  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Hector  Berlioz  died  March  8,  1869. 
Delphin  Alard  was  born  March  8,  181 5. 


March  Ninth. 

For  recreation  from  your  musical  studies 

read  the  poets  frequently. 

Schumann. 

Muzio  Clementi  died  March  9,  1832. 
Theodore    Labarre  was   born   March   9, 
1805,  and  died  March  9,  1870. 


March  Tenth. 

Of  the  nine  the  loveliest  three 
Are  painting,  music,  poetry. 
But  thou  art  freest  of  the  free, 
Matchless  muse  of  harmony. 

Grillparzer. 
(  Translated  by  Sir  Walter  Scott  for  Moscheles 's 
album  in  1828.) 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  4 1 

Ignaz  Moscheles  died  March  10,  1870. 
Dudley  Buck  was  born  March  10,  1839. 


March  Eleve?ith. 

Music  is  one  of  the  greatest  educators  in 
the  world,  and  the  study  of  it  in  its  highest 
departments,  such  as  composition,  harmony, 
and  counterpoint,  develops  the  mind  as  much 
as  the  study  of  mathematics  or  the  languages. 

Anon. 

March  Twelfth. 

Improve  every  opportunity  of  practising 
upon  the  organ :  there  is  no  instrument  which 
takes  such-  speedy  revenge  on  the  impure 
and  the  slovenly  in  composition  or  in  play- 
ing as  the  organ. 

Schumann. 

Felix  Alexandre  Guilmant  was  born  March 
12,  1837. 


42  THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK. 

March  Thirteenth. 

Music  is  such  a  perfect  expression  of 
human  emotion  that  we  can  almost  deduce 
from  it  a  moral  science — a  rule  of  life. 

Goodrich. 

March  Fourteenth. 

Art  springs  in  its  earliest  beginnings  from 
religion,  and  returns  to  it  in  its  highest  de- 
velopment. 

Ambrose. 

Philipp  Emanuel  Bach  was  born  March 
14,  1714. 

March  Fifteenth. 

The  love  of  the  beautiful,  next  to  the  spir- 
itual perception  of  God  and  eternal  relation- 
ships, must  be  admitted  to  be  man's  crown- 
ing distinction. 

Vancleve. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  43 

Maria  Luigo  Cherubini  died  March  15, 
1842. 

March  Sixteenth. 

The  spirit  of  the  artist  is  one  of  self-abne- 
gation, of  devotion  to  ideal  aims. 

Fillmore. 

John  Baptiste  Calkin  was  born  March  16, 
1827. 

March  Seventeenth. 

Notions  may  be  imported  by  books  from 

abroad;  ideas  must  be  grown  at  home  by 

thought. 

Hare. 

Rheinberger  was  born  March  17,  1839. 

March  Eighteenth. 

The  best  definition  of  true  melody,  in  a 
higher  sense,  is  something  that  may  be  sung. 

Ernst  Hoffmann. 


44  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Madam  Anna  Bishop  died  March  18, 
1884. 

March  Nineteenth. 

He  who  can  see  the  good  in  art-works  is 
an  abler  and  a  far  superior  critic  than  he 
who  sees  only  faults. 

Men. 

March  Twentieth. 

The  road  to  perfection,  to  mastership,  lies 
in  the  direction  of  constant  application. 

Werz. 

Johann  Ludwig  Dussek  died  March  20, 
1812. 

March  Twenty -first. 

To  me  it  is  with  Bach  as  if  the  eternal 
harmonies  discoursed  with  one  another. 

Goethe. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  45 

Johann  Sebastian  Bach  was  born  March 
21,  1685. 


March  Twenty-second. 

If  by  your  art  you  cannot  please  all,  con- 
tent the  few.     To  please  the  multitude  is 

bad. 

Schiller. 

Jean  Baptiste  Lully  died  March  22,  1687. 
Carl  Rosa  was  born  March  22,  1842. 


March  Twenty-third. 

The  love  of  beauty  is  taste ;  the  creation 

of  beauty  is  art. 

Emerson. 

Franz  Bendel  was  born  March  23,  1833. 


46  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

March  Twenty -fourth. 

On  life's  dull  stream,  that  niggard  moves 

along, 
Shimmers  the  lively  shadow-world  of  song. 

Schiller. 

Maria  Felicia  Malibran  was  born  March 
24,  1808. 

Thomas  Attwood  died  March  24,  1838. 


March  Twenty -fifth. 

Think  more  of  your  own  progress  than  of 

the  opinion  of  others. 

Mendelssohn. 

Francois  Joseph  F6tis  was  born  March 
25,  1784. 

March  Twenty-sixth. 

In  Beethoven  imagination,  feeling,  intel- 
lect, and  character  are  developed  with  equal 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  47 

power,  and   in  perfect   harmony  with  one 

another. 

Von  Elterlein. 

Ludwig  von  Beethoven  died  March  26, 
1827. 


March  Twenty -seventh. 

The  masterworks  of  the  past  should  be 
the  standard  of  the  works  of  the  present. 

Franz. 


March  Twenty-eighth. 

Music  is  calculated  to  compose  the  mind, 

and  fit  it  for  instruction. 

Aris  tides. 

Gottlob  Bachmann  was  born  March  28, 

Johann  Andre  was  born  March  28,  1741. 
John  Cheshire  was  born  March  28,  1839. 


48  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

March  Twenty-ninth. 

It  is  one  thing  to  give  ourselves  up  to  re- 
flection, and  another  to  yield  to  inspiration. 

Beethoven. 

Johann  Andreas  Amon  died  March  29, 
1825. 

March  Thirtieth. 

The  scholastic  music  had  no  art,  the  popu- 
lar music  no  science. 

Hullah. 

March  Thirty-first. 

Joseph  Haydn!     A  man  who  always  held 

his  gifts  as  a  trust  from  the  Maker  of  all, 

and  who  recognized  his  own  stewardship  by 

inscribing  most  of  his  writings, "  To  the  praise 

of  God." 

Ernst  Patter. 

Joseph  Haydn  was  born  March  31,  1732. 


APRIL. 

A  man  may  mirror  his  own  nature  in  his  playing. 

Schumann. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  5 1 


April  First. 

All  inmost  things,  we  may  say,  are  melodi- 
ous, naturally  utter  themselves  in  song.  The 
meaning  of  song  goes  deep.  Who  is  there 
that,  in  logical  words,  can  express  the  effect 

music  has  on  us  ? 

Carlyle. 


April  Second. 

What  the  learner  discovers  by  mental  ex- 
ertion is  better  known  than  what  is  told  to 

him. 

Marcel. 


April  TJiird. 

To  the  true  artist  music  should  be  a  neces- 
sity, not  merely  an  occupation. 

R.  Franz. 


52 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


Friedrich  Wilhelm  Kiicken  died  April  3, 
1882. 

April  Fourth. 

It  is  essential  that  you  train  your  mind 

more  than  your  fingers. 

Moscheles. 

God  has  a  few  of  us  whom  he  whispers  in 

the  ear; 

The  rest  may  reason,  and  welcome — 'tis  we 

musicians  know. 

Robert  Brcnvning. 


April  Fifth. 

Contact  with  the  powers  of  others  calls 

forth  new  ones  in  ourselves. 

Von  Weber. 

Theodore  Hagen  was  born  April  5,  1826. 
S6bastien  £rard  was  born  April  5,  1752. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  53 

April  Sixth. 

It  is  much  easier  to  be  critical  than  to  be 

correct. 

D  '■ }  Israeli. 

Volkmann  was  born  April  6,  1815. 


April  Seventh. 

Harmony  is  a  beautiful  problem  of  which 

melody  is  the  solution. 

Gretry. 

Giovanni  Rubini  was  born  April  7,  1795. 


April  Eighth. 

Music  is  the  outflow  of  a  beautiful  mind. 

Schumann. 


54  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Gaetano  Donizetti  died  April  8,  1848. 
Anton  Diabelli  died  April  8,  1858. 


April  Ninth. 

Think  you  I  felt  myself  a  prima  donna  ? 
No,  but  a  happy  spiritual  star,  such  as  old' 
Dante  saw,  whose  only  self  was  conscious- 
ness   of    glory    wide-diffused,    music,    life, 
power. 

George  Eliot. 

Adelina  Patti  was  born  April  9,  1843. 
John  Balsir  Chatterton  died  April  9,  1871. 


April  Tenth. 

We  must  ever  strive  after  the  highest, 
and  never  weary  because  others  have  earlier 
obtained  the  good  to  which  we  aspire. 

Mendelssohn. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  55 

The  Leipzig  Conservatoire  was  inaugu- 
rated April  10,  1843,  with  Mendelssohn  at 
the  head. 

Eugene  d' Albert  was  born  April  i  o,  1 864. 


April  Eleventh. 

Music  is  never  stationary  ;  successive  forms 
and  styles  are  only  like  so  many  resting- 
places — like  tents  pitched  and  taken  down 

again  on  the  road  to  the  Ideal. 

Franz  Liszt. 

John  Alcock  was  born  April  11,  171 5. 

April  Twelfth. 

The  beginning  is  half  of  the  whole,  and 

we  all  praise  a  good  beginning. 

Plato. 

Charles  Burney  was  born  April  12,  1726 ; 
died  April  12,  18 14. 


56  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


April  Thirtee?ith. 

Learn  all  there  is  to  learn,  and  then  choose 

your  own  path. 

Handel. 

Handel's  oratorio,  "The  Messiah,"  was  first 
performed  April  13,  1742,  at  Dublin.  The 
audience,  with  George  II.  at  its  head,  rose 
at  the  Hallelujah  Chorus,  and  the  custom 
survives  to  the  present  day. 

George  Frederick  Handel  died  April  13 

1759- 

Sterndale  Bennett  was  born  April  13, 18 16. 


April  Fourteenth. 

You  may  be  a  genius  and  still  trample  art 
underfoot.     You  may  be  one  only  possess- 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  57 

ing  meager  talent  and  still  claim  the  respeci 
due  to  him  who  strives  worthily. 

Ferdinand  von  Hiller. 

Lotus  Niedermeyer  died  April  14,  1861. 


April  Fifteenth. 

There  is  fame   enough  for  one  man  in 

the  "  Overture   to  the  Midsummer   Night's 

Dream  "  of  Mendelssohn. 

Schumann. 

James  Bartlemann  died  April  15,  1821. 
Thomas   Anderton   was   born   April   15, 

1836. 

April  Sixteenth. 

In  sweet  music  is  such  art, 
Killing  care  and  grief  of  heart 
Fall  asleep,  or  hearing,  die. 

Shakespeare, 


58  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Johann    Baptist    Cramer   died  April   16, 
1850. 

Gaetano   Gaffarelli   was  born   April    16, 

Domenico  Dragonetti  died  April  16, 1846. 


April  Seventeenth. 

We  cannot  understand  a  complete  educa- 
tion of  man  without  music. 

Jean  Paul  Richter. 

Ann  Sheppard  Mounsey  Bartholomew  was 
born  April  17,  181 1. 


April  Eighteenth. 

By  the  word  "  symphony "  we  designate 

the  largest  proportion  hitherto  attained  in 

instrumental  music. 

Schumann. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  59 

April  Nineteenth. 

The  tone-art  shows  the  play  of  various 
emotions:  it  is  an  ideal  representation  of 
the  individual  life  and  its  soul  melodies. 

Carriere. 

April  Twentieth. 

The  man  who  labors  only  for  money  is 
selfish ;  he  who  sacrifices  all  for  fame  is  fool- 
ish ;  he  who  lives  for  the  truth  is  the  true 

disciple. 

Men. 

Theodore  Doehler  was  born  April  20, 
1814. 

April  Twenty-first. 

From  the  bottom  of  my  heart  do  I  detest 
that  one-sidedness  of  the  uneducated  many 


60  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

who  think  that  their  own  small  vocation  is 
the  best,  and  that  every  other  is  a  humbug. 

Schubert. 

George  Benjamin  Allen  was  born  April  2 1 , 
1822. 


April  Twenty-seco?id. 

Musical   rhythm  drives  away  weariness, 

lessens  fatigue,  detaches  the  mind  from  the 

painful  realities  of  life,  and  braces  up  the 

courage  to  meet  danger. 

Anon. 

Henri  Berton  died  April  22,  1844. 


April  Twenty-third. 

A  truly  inspired  artist  always  plunges  into 
his  work  with  enthusiastic  abandon. 

Wagner. 


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April  Twenty -fourth. 

The  greatest  beauties  of  melody  and  har- 
mony become  faults  and  imperfections  when 
they  are  not  in  their  proper  place. 

•    Gluck. 


April  Twenty-fifth. 

In  a  composition  which  is  full  of  merit  a 

critic  should  point  out  the  faults ;  in  another 

which  is  full  of  faults  he  should  look  for  the 

redeeming  features. 

Hauptmann. 

Louis  Spohr  was  born  April  25,  1784. 
Tschaikowsky  was  born  April  25,  1840. 
Alfred  Scott  Gatty  was  born  April  25, 
1847. 


62  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


April  Twenty -sixth. 

Good  music  has  a  logic  of  its  own ;  none 
more  severe,  and  surely  none  so  fascinating ; 
for  it  leads,  it  charms  into  the  Infinite. 

Dwight. 


April  Twenty-seventh, 

Every  difficulty  slurred  over  will  be  a 
ghost  to  disturb  your  repose  later  on. 

Chopin. 

Baron  von  Flotow  was  born  April  27, 
1812. 

Louis  Niedermeyer  was  born  April  27, 
1802. 

Romberg  was  born  April  27,  1767. 


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April  Twenty-eighth. 

The  aim  of  art  is  not  only  to  copy  the  ex- 
amples of  nature,  but  to  beautify,  to  idealize, 
and  to  group  and  arrange  them. 

Ernst  Pauer. 


April  Twenty-ninth. 

The  musical  genius  of  Germany  is  divided 

into  three  eras,  each  identified  with  a  triad 

whose  works  have  successively  enlarged  the 

domain   of   art — viz.,    Bach,    Handel,   and 

Gluck;    Haydn,   Mozart,    and   Beethoven; 

Weber,  Mendelssohn,  and  Spohr. 

Ella. 


64  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


April  Thirtieth. 

Sing  frequently  in  choruses,  especially  in 
the  middle  parts.     This  makes  you  musical. 

Schumann. 

Carl  Formes  died  April  30,  1889. 

Sir  Henry  Rowley  Bishop  died  April  30, 

i855- 


MAY. 

It  was  by  music  that  mankind  was  harmonized. 

Herder. 


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May  First. 

The  crucial  test  of  good  vocal  music  is 
the  intrinsic  merit  of  the  music  when  sepa- 
rated from  the  words,  and  that  merit  consists 

in  the  beauty  of  musical  thought. 

Hiller. 

Emma  Albertazzi  was  born  May  i,  1814. 

May  Second. 

We  soon  grow  weary  of  mere  imitation, 
because  it  affords  no  food  for  our  intellect. 

Veron. 

Giacomo  Meyerbeer  died  May  2,  1864. 

May  Third. 

Touch  is  to  the  pianist  what  a  good  man- 
agement of  the  voice  is  to  the  vocalist,  or 


68  THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK. 

a  good  action  of  the  bow  to  a  violinist — 

the  means  of  producing  agreeable  sounds 

and  of  executing  difficulties. 

Taylor. 

William  Beale  died  May  3,  1854. 

May  Fourth. 

Cheerfulness  is  one  of  the  graces  every 
artist  should  cultivate,  and  it  should  be  de- 
veloped and  increased. 

Sonnekalb. 

Felix  Mendelssohn-Bartholdy  and  Cecile 
Jeanrenaud  were  married  in  May. 

May  Fifth. 

In  my  opinion  a  musician's  real  work  only 
begins  when  he  has  reached  what  is  called 
perfection,  viz.,  a  point  beyond  which  he 

has  nothing  apparently  to  learn. 

Mendelssohn. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  69 

May  Sixth. 

It  is  art  and  science  alone  that  reveal  to 

us  and  give  us  the  hope  of  a  loftier  life. 

Beethoven. 

May  Seventh. 

What  love  is  to  the  heart,  that  music  is  to 
the  other  arts  and  to  man,  for  music  is  love 

itself. 

Weber. 

Parepa  Rosa  was  born  May  7,  1830. 
Beethoven's  ninth  symphony  was  played 
first  May  7,  1824. 

Brahms  was  born  May  7,  1833. 


May  Eighth. 

As  Beethoven  regarded  his  art  as  some- 
thing sacred,  which  he  placed  higher  than  all 


70  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

philosophy,  so  has  a  refined  artist  an  innate 

horror  of  all  vulgar,  frivolous,  and  effeminate 

music. 

Ambros. 

May  Ninth. 

Music  is  evidently  a  necessity  of  our  ex- 
istence, and  the  more  the  taste  for  it  is  de- 
veloped in  its  highest  form  the  greater  will  be 
our  appreciation  of  the  good  and  beautiful. 

Anon. 

Ciro  E.  Pinsuti  was  born  May  9,  1829. 


May  Tenth. 

It  is  only  in   original  work  that  genius 

ripens  to  maturity. 

Richard  Wagner. 

The  grand  festival  march  was  composed 
by  Wagner  for  the  opening  of  the  Centen- 
nial Exhibition,  Philadelphia,  May  10,  1876. 


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May  Eleventh. 

Technique  should  not  seek  to  shine  by 
itself,  and  least  of  all  give  the  impression  of 
being  the  performer's  strongest  point. 

Chris  Hani. 

May  Twelfth. 

When  technique,  already  faultless,  is  quali- 
fied by  refinement  and  poetry  in  touch  and 
taste,  it  ceases  to  be  simply  mechanical,  and 

becomes  artistic. 

Christiani. 

Adolph  Henselt  was  born  May  12,  1814. 
Massenet  was  born  May  12,  1842. 


May  Thirteenth. 

He  who  has  not  been  a  servant  cannot 

become  a  praiseworthy  master. 

Plato. 


f2  THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK. 

Daniel  Francois  Auber  died  May  13, 
1871. 

John  Sullivan  Dwight  was  born  May  13, 
1813. 

Arthur  Sullivan  was  born  May  13,  1842. 


May  Fourteenth. 

You  must  gradually  make  acquaintance 

with  all  the  more  important  works  of  all  the 

important  masters. 

Schumann. 

fimile  Prudent  died  May  14,  1863. 

May  Fifteenth. 

Seek  among  your  associates  those  who 

know  more  than  you. 

Schumann. 

Alexander  Campbell  died  May  15,  1824. 
John  Wall  Calcott  died  May  15,  1821. 
Stephen  Heller  was  born  May  15,  181 5. 


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May  Sixteenth. 

Consider  it  a  monstrosity  to  alter  or  to 
leave  out  anything,  or  to  introduce  any  new- 
fangled ornaments,  in  pieces  by  a  good  com- 
poser.   That  is  the  greatest  outrage  you  can 

do  to  art. 

Schumann. 

May  Seventeenth. 

Perfection  even  in  a  sphere  the  most  for- 
eign to  us  leaves  its  own  stamp  on  the  mind. 

Mendelssohn. 

Fanny  Cecile  Mendelssohn  Hensel  died 
May  17,  1848. 


May  Eighteenth. 

Beauty  in   music   lies   not   alone  in  the 
agreeable  union  of  sweet  tones,  but  also  is 


74  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

largely  couched  in  the  symmetry  of  struc- 
ture which  we  call  rhythm  and  form. 

Anon. 

Karl  Goldmark  was  born  May  18,  1832. 


May  Nineteenth. 

It  is  not  enough  for  us  to  be  musicians 
only.  We  must  be  men  and  women  of  gen- 
eral  information,   of   liberal    education — in 

short,  men  and  women  of  culture. 

Gates. 


May  Twentieth. 

I  am  inclined  to  think  that  only  men  of 
genius  understand  each  other  fully  and  thor- 
oughly. 

Schumann. 

Jean  Henri  Ravina  was  born  May  20, 
1818. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  75 

May  Ttventy-first. 

Time  goes  on,  and  what  sufficed  for  one 
age  appears  to  the  next  as  a  woeful  short- 
coming. 

Beethoven. 

Abbe*  Giuseppe  Baini  died  May  21,  1844. 


May  Twenty -second. 

To  Wagner  at  birth  the  gods  gave  two 
gifts — a  capacity  to  receive  and  to  retain  the 
most  various  and  the  most  intense  impres- 
sions, and,  as  he  phrases  it,  "  the  ever  intensi- 
fied spirit  that  ever  seeks  new  things." 

Dannrenther. 

Richard  Wagner  was  born  May  22,  1813. 

The  corner-stone  of  Wagner's  theater  was 
laid  May  22,  1872. 

Domenico  Corri  died  May  22,  1825. 


76  THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK. 

May  Twenty -third. 

An  assiduous  and  persevering  cultivation 
ot  a  talent  is  as  necessary  as  the  talent  itself. 

Engel. 

May  Twenty -fourth. 

Music  requires,  indeed,  a  code  of  rules  just 
as  poesy  requires  a  system  of  versification. 

Thibaut. 

Frederick  Ernst  died  May  24,  1826. 


May  Twenty-fifth. 

An  enemy  is  always  a  keen  searcher  for 
faults,  while  a  friend  seeks  to  find  also  our 
good  qualifications.     The  critic  should  be  a 

friend. 

Merz. 


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May  Twenty-sixth. 

Music  produces  like  effects  on  the  mind 

as  good  medicine  on  the  body. 

Mirandola. 


May  Twenty-seventh. 
Music  requires  inspiration. 


Ghtck. 


Nicoli  Paganini  died  May  27,  1840. 
Halevy  was  born  May  27,  1799. 
Joseph  Joachim  Raff  was  born  May  27, 
1822. 

May  Twenty -eighth. 

As  the  study  of  geometry  trains  the  mind 

in  the  abstract,  so  the  study  of  music  trains 

the  emotions  in  the  abstract. 

Anon. 

Thomas  Moore  was  born  May  28,  1779. 
Luigi  Boccherini  died  May  28,  1805. 


78  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

May  Twenty -ninth. 

I  verily  think,  and  am  not  ashamed  to  say, 
that,  next  to  divinity,  no  art  is  comparable 

to  music. 

Martin  Luther. 

May  Thirtieth. 

It  is  cheering  once  more  to  meet  an  artist 
[Moscheles]  who  is  not  a  victim  to  envy, 

jealousy,  or  miserable  egotism. 

Mendelssohn. 

Ignaz  Moscheles  was  born  May  30,  1794. 

May  Tfiirty-first. 

How  in  keeping  is  a  musical  love  so  warm 
and  a  musical  proficiency  so  general  with  a 
nation  which  has  given  to  the  world  a 
Mozart,  a  Haydn,  a  Beethoven! 

Trotter. 
Franz  Joseph  Haydn  died  May  31,  1809. 


JUNE. 

Music  to  the  mind  is  as  air  to  the  body. 

Plato. 


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June  First. 

inspiration  is  after  all  the  noblest  attribute 

in  an  artist. 

Hanptynann. 

Ignez  Josef  Pleyel  was  born  June  i,  1757. 


June  Second. 

Music  is  architecture  translated  or  trans- 
posed from  space  into  time ;  for  in  music, 
besides  the  deepest  feeling,  there  reigns  also 
a  rigorous,  mathematical  intelligence. 

Hegel. 

Manuel  Garcia  died  June  2,  1832. 

June  Third. 

The  aim  of  all  arts  is  the  same,  though 

every  one  of  them  arrives  at  its  own  ends 

by  different  roads. 

Hitter. 


82  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Alexander  George  Bizet  died  June  3, 1875. 
John   Christmas   Beckwith   died  June  3, 
1809. 

June  Fourth. 

0  Music,  sphere-descended  maid, 
Friend  of  pleasure,  Wisdom's  aid! 

Collins. 

June  Fifth. 

There  never  lived  a  musician  more  Ger- 
man than  thou.  England  renders  thee  jus- 
tice, France  admires  thee,  but  Germany  alone 

can  love  thee. 

Richard  Wagner  (at  Von  Weber's  grave). 

Carl  Maria  von  Weber  died  June  5,  1826. 


June  Sixth. 

Why  music  was  ordained  ? 

Was  it  not  to  refresh  the  mind  of  man 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  83 

After  his  studies,  or  his  usual  pain  ? 
Then  give  me  leave  to  read  philosophy, 
And  while  I  pause  serve  in  your  harmony. 

Shakespeare. 

Henri  Vieuxtemps  died  June  6,  1881. 


June  Seventh. 

What  can  wake  the  soul's  strongest  in- 
stinct of  another  world  like  music  ? 

L.  E.  Landon. 


June  Eighth. 

No  art  is  more  closely  connected  with  the 
inner  life  of  man  than  music,  whose  magic 
power  steps  in  precisely  at  the  point  where 
the  positive  expression  of  language  fails. 

Ritter. 


84  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Luigi  Ricci  was  born  June  8,  1805. 
Giuseppe  Antonio  Guarnerius  was  born 
June  8,  1683. 

June  Ninth. 

Music  is  the  essence  of  order,  and  leads 
to  all  that  is  good,  just,  and  beautiful. 

Plato. 

June  Tenth. 

The  mind  alone,  whose  every  thought  is 
rhythm,  can  embody  music,  can  comprehend 
its  mysteries,  its  divine  inspirations,  and  can 
speak  to  the  senses  of  its  intellectual  revela- 
tion. 

Beethoven. 

Charles  Ainslie  Barry  was  born  June  10, 
1830. 

Frederick  Michael  Kalkbrenner  died  June 

10,  1849. 


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June  Eleventh. 

The  purest  music  will  produce  the  purest 

sentiments.     How  important,  then,  that  we 

should  study  the  best! 

C.  Merz. 

Anna  Mehlig  was  born  June  n,  1846. 

June  Twelfth. 

"  While  the  painter  or  sculptor  must  bor- 
row the  raiment  for  his  idea  from  the  human 
form  or  the  landscape,  the  musician  is  alone 
with  his  imagination." 

Angelica  Catalini  died  June  12,  1846. 

Edward  Horsley  died  June  12,  1858. 

June  TJiirteenth. 

Healthy  criticism,  such  as  is  based  on  true 
art-knowledge,  is  very  healthful  to  the  pro- 


86  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

gress  of  art ;  yes,  we  may  call  it  the  very  life 

of  art. 

Merz. 

Henry  Charles  Banister  was  born  June  13, 
1831. 

June  Fourteenth. 

A  fugue,  sonata,  or  symphony,  studied  sci- 
entifically, in  all  the  relations  of  the  separate 
parts  to  one  another  and  to  the  whole,  de- 
mands for  its  proper  comprehension  intellec- 
tual powers  and  training. 

Fillmore. 

June  Fifteenth. 

The  air  we  breathe  penetrates  even  to  the 
inward  man.  A  man's  life  and  work  are 
greatly  influenced  by  his  surroundings. 

Schumann. 

Edward  Grieg  was  born  June  15,  1843. 

Orlando  di  Lasso  died  June  15,  1594. 


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June  Sixteenth. 

I  need  not  tell  you  that  music  bears  upon 
its  wings  some  of  the  sweetest  and  purest 
pleasures  of  the  passing  hour,  whether  it 
gushes  forth  from  the  human  lips  or  from 
the  breath  of  old  ^Eolus  upon  his  throne. 

Dr.  John  Hall. 

Etelka  Gerster  was  born  June  16,  1857. 


June  Seventeenth. 

O  Music,  thou  who  bringest  the  receding 
waves  of  eternity  nearer  to  the  weary  heart 
of  man  as  he  stands  upon  the  shore  and  longs 
to  cross  over,  art  thou  the  evening  breeze  of 
life  or  the  morning  air  of  the  future? 

Jean  Paul  Richter. 

Henriette  Sontag  died  June  17,  1854. 
Charles  Gounod  was  born  June  17,  18 18. 


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June  Eighteenth. 

It  is  in  music,  perhaps,  that  the  soul  most 
nearly  attains  the  great  end  for  which,  when 
inspired  by  the  poetic  sentiment,  it  struggles 
— the  creation  of  supernal  beauty. 

Edgar  Allen  Poe. 

Johann  Andre  died  June  18,  1799. 
David  Popper  was  born  June  18,  1846. 


June  Nineteenth. 

Every  note  of  Mozart's  is  a  round  in  the 
ladder  of  the  spheres,  by  which  he  ascended 
to  the  heaven  of  perfection. 

Jean  Paul  Richter. 

Walter  Bache  was  born  June  19,  1842. 
Ferdinand  David  was  born  June  19,  18 10. 


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June  Twentieth. 

Even  in  the  most  intricate  compositions, 

and  particularly  in  those  which  express  his 

most  mysterious  feelings,  the  artist  should 

employ  simple  form  in  order  to  render  his 

ideas  clear  and  intelligible. 

Stephen  Heller. 

June  Twenty-first. 

All  music  is  an  idealization  of  the  natural 

language  of  passion. 

Herbert  Spencer. 

Charles  Frederick  Curschmann  was  born 
June  21,  1805. 

June  Twenty-second. 

My  sphere  extends  to  regions  which  to  the 

poet  and  painter  are  not  easily  accessible. 

Beethoven. 


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June  Twenty -third. 

Chopin  gave  a  concert  in  London  June 
23,  1848. 

After  the  hammer  and  tongs  in  the  piano 
to  which  we  have  of  late  years  been  accus- 
tomed, the  delicacy  of  Chopin's  touch  is  de- 
licious to  the  ear. 

Choreley's  criticism. 

Carl  Reinecke  was  born  June  23,  1824. 


June  Twenty -fourth. 

The  esthetic  principle  is  the  same  in  every 

art,  only  the  material  differs. 

Schumann. 

Mehul  was  born  June  24,  1763. 

Jtine  Twenty-fifth. 

Mendelssohn's   "  Hymn  of   Praise "   was 
performed  for  the  first  time  on  the  25th  of 


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June  at  the  celebration  of  the  fourth  cente- 
nary of  printing. 

June  Twenty -sixth. 

Music,  once  admitted  to  the  soul,  becomes 

a  sort  of  spirit,  and  never  dies. 

Bulwer. 


June  Twenty-seventh. 

He  who  sets  limits  to  himself  will  always 

be  expected  to  remain  within  them. 

Schumann. 

John  Pyke  Hullah  was  born  June  27, 
1812. 

August  Wilhelm  Ambros  died  June  27, 
1876. 

June  Twenty -eighth. 

The  works  of  those  who  have  stood  the 
test  of  ages  have  a  claim  to  that  respect 


92  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

and  veneration   to  which   no  modern  can 

pretend. 

Sir  Joshua  Reynolds. 

Robert  Franz  was  born  June  28,  181 5. 
Josef  Joachim  was  born  June  28,  1831. 


June  Twenty -ninth. 

The  three  requisites  of  a  good  singer  are 
natural  talent,  artistic  training,  and  practice. 

Praetorius. 

J.  Campanini  was  born  June  29,  1846. 


June  Thirtieth. 

A  singer  who  is  not  able  to  recite  his  part 
according  to  the  intention  of  the  poet  can- 
not possibly  sing  it  according  to  the  inten- 
tion of  the  composer. 

Wagner. 

Edward  John  Hopkins  was  born  June  30, 
1818. 


JULY. 


Exalt  art,  and  art  will  elevate  you. 

Booth. 


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July  First. 

Listen  attentively  to  all  folk-songs :  these 

are  a  treasure  of  lovely  melodies,  and  will 

teach  you   the    characteristics  of   different 

nations. 

Schumann. 

July  Second. 

Simplicity,  truth,  and  naturalness  are  the 
great  principles  of  the  beautiful  in  all  pro- 
ductions of  art. 

Glitck. 

Christoph  Willibald  von  Gluck  was  born 
July  2,  1 7 14. 

July  Third. 

Merely  to  have  learned  how  to  learn  is  a 

great  advance. 

Menander. 

Franz  Bendel  died  July  3,  1874. 


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July  Fourth. 

If  an  artist  does  not  himself  feel  what  is 
great,  how  can  he  succeed  in  making  me 

feel  it  ? 

Mendelssohn. 

William  Byrd  died  July  4,  1623. 


July  Fifth. 

Art  in  general  is  that  magic  instrumental- 
ity by  which  man's  mind  reveals  to  man's 
senses  that  great  mystery,  the  beautiful. 

Ritter. 

William  Crotch  was  born  July  5,  1775. 


July  Sixth. 

Genius  is  the  most  beautiful  gift  with  which 
nature  favors  mankind  from  time  to  time. 


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Through  it  we  are  allowed  to  enjoy  what  is 
most  sublime — self-oblivion  in  a  loftier  life. 

F.  Hiller. 


July  Seventh. 

Before  a  man  can  produce  anything  great, 

he  must  understand  the  means  by  which  he 

has  to  produce  it. 

Goethe. 

July  Eighth. 

On  the  8th  of  July,  1791,  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Music  was  conferred  on  Haydn 
by  the  University  of  Oxford. 

Ye  peddlers  in  art,  do  ye  not  sink  into 
the  earth  when  ye  are  reminded  of  the  words 
uttered  by  Beethoven  on  his  dying-bed  :  "  I 
believe  I  am  yet  but  at  the  beginning  "  ? 

Schumann. 

Robert  Schumann  was  born  July  8,  1810. 


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July  Ninth. 

Mannerism  is  a  false  idealism,  a  personi- 
fied ideal ;  for  this  reason  it  rarely  lacks  a 

certain  intellectuality. 

Goethe. 


July  Tenth. 

Tis  God  gives  skill, 

But  not  without  men's  hands:  he  could 

not  make 

Antonio  Stradivari's  violins 

Without  Antonio. 

George  ElioVs  Stradivarius. 

Wieniawski  was  born  July  10,  1835. 


July  Eleventh. 

That  composer  is  greatest  who  most  clearly 
discerns  the  true  ends  and  capabilities  of  his 


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art ;  who  aims  to  give  worthy  expression  to 

the  noblest  emotional  experience. 

Fillmore. 


July  Twelfth. 

I  am  too  like  the  pedant  who,  seeing  a 

virtuoso  quietly  continue  playing  when  his 

music  had  fallen  from  his  desk,  cried  out  in 

hot  excitement,  "  Look,  look,  that  is  indeed 

art !      He  knows  it  by  heart !  " 

Schumann. 

Jean  Ancot  died  July  12,  1848. 


July  Thirteenth. 

The  mind  which  is  not  gifted  with  the 

powers   of   imagination    may  be  fitted    for 

other  studies  than  music,  but  in  the  arts  it 

will  always  be  dull  and  inert. 

Merz. 


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July  Fourteenth. 

Schubert  wrote  for  silence :  half  his  work 
Lay  like  a  frozen  Rhine  till  summer  came, 
That  warmed  the  grass  above  him.    Even  so ! 
His  music  lives  now  with  a  mighty  youth. 

George  Eliot. 


July  Fifteenth. 

She  longed  for  music  that  was  natural ; 

Physicians  said  it  was  medicinal  ! 

The  humors  might  be  schooled  by  true  con- 
sent 
Of  a  fine  tenor  and  fine  instrument.     . 

George  Eliot. 

Carlo  Farinelli  died  July  15,  1782. 
Carl  Czerny  died  July  15,  1857. 
John  Barnett  was  born  July  15,  1802. 


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July  Sixteenth. 

A  certain  music  never  known  before 
Here  lulled  the  pensive,  melancholy  mind. 

Thomson- 

Luigi  Arditi  was  born  July  16,  1825. 

July  Seventeenth. 

What  shines  and  glitters  has  its  birth 

But  for  the  present  hour  alone ; 

The  Real — the  thing  of  truth  and  worth — 

To  all  posterity  goes  down. 

Goethe. 


July  Eighteenth. 

The  quality  which  Chopin  most  valued  in 
the  player  was  a  sympathetic  touch. 

Charles  Williby. 


102  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Pauline  Viardot  Garcia  was  born  July  18, 
1821. 

July  Nineteenth. 

Lose  no  opportunity  of  playing  music- 
duos,  trios,  etc. — with  others.  This  will  make 
your  playing  broader  and  more  flowing. 

Schumann. 

Ferdinand  David  died  July  19,  1873. 


July  Twentieth. 

One  of  the  principal  elements  of  genius  is 
strength  of  will  to  control  the  mind  and  com- 
mand the  mental  energies. 

Anon. 


July  Twenty-first. 

The  laws  of  morality  are  also  the  laws  of 
art. 

Schumann. 


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Johann  Nepomuk   Miilzel  died  July  21, 
1838,  at  sea,  on  his  way  to  the  United  States. 
Robert  Burns  died  July  21,  1796. 


July  Twenty-second. 

The  aim  of  all  arts  is  the  same,  though 

every  one  of  them  arrives  at  its  own  end  by 

different  roads. 

Ritter. 

July  Twenty-third. 

Every  artist  of  genius  breathes  into  his 
work  an  unexpressed  idea,  which  speaks  to 
our  feelings  even  before  it  can  be  defined. 

F.  Liszt. 

July  Twenty -fourth. 

We  are  often  made  to  feel  with  a  shivering 
delight  that  from  an  earthly  harp  are  stricken 


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notes  which  cannot  have  been  unfamiliar  to 

the  angels. 

Edgar  Allen  Poc. 

Felix  Godefroid  was  born  July  24,  181 8. 
Adolph  Charles  Adam  was  born  July  24, 
1803. 


July  Twenty-fifth. 

Without  imagination  no  perfection  in  art 

is  possible. 

Merz. 

Ferdinand  Beyer  was  born  July  25,  1803. 
Horton  Claridge  Allison  was  born  July 
25,  1846. 

July  Twenty-sixth. 

The  human  voice  is  really  the  foundation 
of  all  music ;  and  whatever  the  development 
of  the  art,  whatever  the  boldest  combinations 


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of  a  composer  or  the  most  brilliant  execution 
of  a  virtuoso,  in  the  end  they  must  always 
return  to  the  standard  set  by  vocal  music. 

Wagner. 

"  Parsifal "  was  first  performed  July  26, 
1882. 
John  Field  was  born  July  26,  1782. 


July  Twenty -seventh. 

Music  doth  not  only  expel  the  greatest 
griefs,  but  it  doth  extenuate  fears  and  furies, 
appeaseth  cruelty,  abateth  heaviness,  and  to 
such  as  are  watchful  it  causeth  great  rest. 

Cassiodorus. 

George  Onslow  was  born  July  27,  1784. 


July  Twenty -eighth. 

The  concert  of  musicians  at  a  banquet  is 
as  a  carbuncle  set  in  gold  ;  and  as  the  signet 


106  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

of  an  emerald  well  trimmed  with  gold,  so  is 
the  melody  of  music  at  a  pleasant  banquet. 

Epictetus. 

Giulietta  Grisi  was  born  July  28,  181 1. 


July  Twenty-ninth. 

Be  sure  the  works  of  mighty  men, 

The  good,  the  faithful,  the  sublime, 

Stored  in  the  gallery  of  Time, 

Repose  awhile — to  wake  again. 

Goethe. 

Robert  Schumann  died  July  29,  1856. 

July  Thirtieth. 

A  deeper  insight  into  Bach's  works  cannot 
fail  to  further  the  progress  of  art. 

Moscheles. 

Johann  Sebastian  Bach  died  July  30,  1750. 


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July  Thirty-first. 

Liszt  will  certainly  be  known  in  the  history 
of  pianoforte  music  as  the  greatest  virtuoso 

of  his  time. 

Fillmore. 

Franz  Liszt  died  July  31,  1886. 
John  Bishop  was  born  July  31,  181 7. 


AUGUST. 

All  deep  things  are  song. 


Carlyle. 


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August  First. 

Do  not  give  Beethoven  to  the  children ; 

strengthen  them  with  Mozart,  brimming  with 

rich  vitality. 

Schumann. 

Elizabeth    Randies,  the   little    Cambrian 
prodigy,  was  born  August  i,  1800. 


August  Second. 

The  most  talented  composers  of  the  pres- 
ent day  are  pianists — a  fact  that  has  been 

observed  during  former  epochs. 

Schumann. 

Jules  Schulhoff  was  born  August  2,  1825. 


112  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

August  Tfiird. 

The  one  thing  you  have  to  do  is  to  make 

a  clear-voiced  little  instrument  of  yourself, 

which  other  people  can  depend  upon  entirely 

for  the  note  wanted. 

Ruskin. 

Christine  Nilssen  was  born  August  3,  1843. 


August  Fourth. 

Music  resembles  poetry  :  in  each 
Are  nameless  graces  which  no  methods  teach, 
And  which  a  master  hand  alone  can  reach. 

Pope. 

Francis   Edward   Bache  died  August  4, 
1858. 

Wolfgang    Amadeus    Mozart    and    Con- 
stanze  Weber  were  married  August  4,  1782. 


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August  Fifth. 

There  is  no  feeling,  perhaps,  except  the 
extremes  of  fear  and  grief,  that  does  not  find 
relief  in  music,  that  does  not  make  a  man 

sing  or  play  better. 

George  Eliot. 

Ambrose  Thomas  was  born  August  5, 
1811. 

Robert  Lucas  de  Pearsall  died  August  5, 
1856. 


August  Sixth. 

Natural  gift  may  produce  a  poet,  but  it 
does  not  make  a  musician.  The  highest 
perfection  is  reached  only  by  untiring  prac- 
tice and  almost  ceaseless  work. 

F.  Brendel. 


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August  Seventh. 

That  music  is  the  usefulest  which  makes 
the  best  words  most  beautiful,  which  en- 
chants them  in  our  memory,  each  with  its 
own  glory  of  sound,  and  which  applies  them 
closest  to  the  heart  at  the  moment  we  need 

them. 

Ruskin. 

Carl  Formes  was  born  August  7,  1818. 


August  Eighth. 

Do  you  not  recall 

How  the  words  fitted  to  the  melody — 
A  carol  joyous  as  it  spread  its  wings, 
And  falling  into  minors  at  its  close  ? 

Francis  Howard  Williams. 


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August  Ninth. 

Dare  talent  permit  itself  to  take  the  same 
liberties  as  genius  ?  Yes ;  but  the  former 
will  perish  where  the  latter  triumphs. 

Schumann. 


August  Tenth. 

"Without     haste,    without    rest,"     says 

Goethe.    This  should  be  the  motto  of  every 

aspirant  for  musical  honors. 

Anon. 


August  Eleventh. 

Music  is  love ;  it  springs  from  religion  and 

leads  to  religion. 

Hanslick. 

Catherine  Hayes  died  August  n,  1861. 


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August  Twelfth. 

Were  it  not  for  music  we  might  in  these 

days  say  the  beautiful  is  dead. 

D1  Israeli. 

Monument  erected  to  Beethoven  at  Bonn, 
August  12,  1845. 

Niccolo  Amati  died  August  12,  1684. 

Joseph  Barnby  was  born  August  12,  1838. 

The  Rev.  Sir  F.  A.  Gore  Ouseley  was  born 
August  12,  1825. 


August  Thirteenth. 

Wouldst  thou  know  if  a  people  be  well 
governed,  if  its  laws  be  good  or  bad,  exam- 
ine the  music  it  practises. 

Confucius. 

William  Thomas  Best  was  born  August 
13,  1826. 


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August  Fourteenth. 

Music  is  designed  for  the  masses ;  it  is 
one  of  the  principal  means,  outside  of  Chris- 
tianity, to  refine  the  masses. 

Merz. 

William  Croft  died  August  14,  1727. 

August  Fifteenth. 

The  teacher  is  the  mediator  between  the 

pure  and  high  art,  as  shown  in  the  works  of 

great  masters,  and  between  the  young  and 

the  coming  generation. 

Louis  Kohler. 

Johann  Nepomuk  Malzel  was  born  August 

August  Sixteenth. 

Thoroughness  is  better  than  cheap  ap- 
plause, and  inexhaustible  patience  that  works 


Il8  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

on  and  bides  its  time  shall  not  fail  of  its  re- 
ward. 

Anon. 

Heinrich  Marschner  was  born  August  16, 
1795- 

August  Seventeenth. 

There  are  many  minds  that  only  work 
effectively  when  they  do  so  under  compul- 
sion. 

Schumann. 

August  Eighteenth. 

Art  and  composition  tolerate  no  conven- 
tional fetters ;    mind  and  soul   soar  above 

them. 

Joseph  Haydn. 

Benjamin  Godard  was  born  August  18, 
1849. 
Ole  Bull  died  August  18,  1880. 


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August  Nineteenth. 

Three  trifles  are  essential  for  a  good  piano 
or  singing  teacher:  the  finest  feeling,  the 
deepest  feeling,  the  most  delicate  ear,  and 
in  addition  the  requisite  knowledge,  energy, 

and  some  practice. 

Friedrich  Wieck. 

Niccold  Porpora  was  born  August  1 9, 1 686. 


August  Twentieth. 

Whatever  may  be  the  permanent  signifi- 
cance of  Mendelssohn's  best  work,  he  was, 
as  man,  musician,  conductor,  pianist,  organ- 
ist, and  composer,  one  of  the  most  powerful 
influences  in  molding  the  musical  thoughts 
and  shaping  the  musical  tendencies  of  the 
second  and  third  quarters  of  this  century. 

Fillmore. 


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August  Twenty-first. 

There  is  but  one  class  of  men  who  con- 
demn music,  and  those  are  fanatics,  and 
there  is  only  one  order  of  beings,  according 
to  Luther,  who  hate  it,  and  those  are  devils. 

Mower. 

August  Twenty-second. 

Art !     Who  can  say  that  he  fathoms  it  ? 

Who  is  there  capable  of  discussing  the  nature 

of  this  great  goddess  ? 

Beethoven. 

August  Twenty -third. 

One  begins  by  resolving  to  know  every- 
thing ;  soon  he  despairs  of  knowing  any- 
thing ;  at  last  he  is  glad  to  know  something. 

Van  Cleve. 


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Emanuel  Aguilar  was  born  August  23, 
1824. 

Moritz  Moskowski  was  born  August  23, 
1854. 

August  Twenty -fourth. 

It  is  the  duty  of  every  composer  to  make 
himself  familiar  with  all  the  works  of  the 
older  and  modern  poets,  in  order  to  choose 
for  his  vocal  music  the  best  and  most  ade- 
quate words. 

Beethoven. 

Karl  Friedrich  Curschmann  died  August 
24,  1841. 


August  Twenty '-fifth. 

Mannerism  is  displeasing  in  the  original, 
to  say  nothing  of  the  same  faults  in  copyists. 

Schumann. 


122  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

August  Twenty -sixth. 

Art  is  a  great  fugue  into  which  the  differ- 
ent individualities  and  nationalities  step  and 
become  resolved,  like  the  different  subjects, 

one  after  another. 

Schumann. 

August  Twenty-seventh. 

The  most  difficult  art  known  to  art  is  to 

teach  art. 

Anon. 

Theresa  Parodi  was  born  August  27,  1827. 
Josquin  Des  Pres  died  August  27,  1521. 

August  Twenty-eighth. 

I  willingly  renounce  the  world,  which  has 
no  presentiment  that  music  is  a  higher  reve- 
lation than  all  their  wisdom  and  philosophy. 

Beethoven. 

Niccolo  Jomonelli  died  August  28,  1769. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  I  23 

August  Twenty-ninth. 

We  see  that  several  airs  and  tunes  do 
please  several  nations  and  persons,  accord- 
ing to  the  sympathy  they  have  with  their 

spirits. 

Lord  Bacon. 

August  Thirtieth. 

Reverence  the  old,  but  meet  the  new  also 

with  a  warm  heart.     Cherish  no  prejudice 

against  names  unknown  to  you. 

Schumann. 


August  Thirty-first. 

Art  is  not  for  the  end  of  getting  riches. 

Only  become  a  greater  and  a  greater  artist ; 

the  rest  will  come  of  itself. 

Schumann. 

Francois  Andre  Philidor  died  August  31, 
1729. 


SEPTEMBER. 

Melody  is,  and  ever  will  be,  the  v  ery  jlcnver  of  music. 

Ambros. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  I  27 

September  First. 

Exercise  your  imagination  so  that  you 
may  acquire  the  power  of  remembering  not 
only  the  melody  of  a  composition,  but  also 
the  harmonies  which  accompany  it. 

Schumann. 

September  Second. 

Fancy  and  feeling  go  naturally  together, 

and,  indeed,  ought  to  be  united;  but  such 

union  is  rare,  and  is  one  of  the  surest  signs 

of  genius. 

Patter. 

September  Third. 

Do  not  take  up  the  violin  unless  you  mean 

to  work  hard  at  it.     Any  other  instrument 

may  be  more  safely  trifled  with. 

Haweis. 

Niccolo  Amati  was  born  at  Cremona,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1596. 


128  THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK. 

September  Fourth. 

Whatever  speculative  knowledge  is  neces- 
sary for  the  artist  is  equally  so  for  the  con- 
noisseur. 

Sir  Joshua  Reynolds. 

Auguste  Emil  Wilhelmj  was  born  Septem- 
ber 4,  1845. 

September  Fifth. 

* 

The  musician  cannot  transcribe  Nature, 
but  he  can  tell  us  what  he  felt  at  her  touch. 

Barbedetti. 

Jacob  Meyerbeer  was  born  September  5, 
1794. 

September  Sixth. 

Contrast,  not  uniformity,  is  a  condition  of 

every  work  of  art. 

Christiani. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  129 

Anton   Diabelli   was  born  September  6, 
1781. 

September  Seventh. 

I  hold  that  every  composer  has  a  merit  of 

his  own  which  is  determined  by  the  intrinsic 

value  of  his  works. 

C.  P.  E.  Bach. 

Francois  Andre  Philidor  was  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1726. 


September  Eighth. 

So  that  genius  exists  it  matters  little  how 

it  appears — whether  in  the  depths,  as  with 

Bach,  or  in  the  heights,  as  with  Mozart,  or 

in  the  depths  and  on  the  heights  at  once,  as 

with  Beethoven. 

Schumann. 

Antonin  Dvorak  was  born  September  8, 
1841. 


130  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR   BOOK. 

September  Ninth. 

The  first  and  most  indispensable  quality 
of  any  artist  is  to  feel  respect  for  great  men, 
and  to  bow  down  in  spirit  before  them ;  to 
recognize  their  merits,  and  not  to  endeavor 
to  extinguish  their  great  flame  in  order  that 
his  own  feeble  rushlight  may  burn  a  little 
brighter. 

Mendelssohn. 

September  Tenth. 

It  is  by  pictures  and  music,  by  art  and 
song  and  symbolic  representations,  that  all 
nations  have  been  educated  in  their  adoles- 
cence. 

Charles  Kings  ley. 

September  Eleventh. 

They  are  never  alone  that  are  accom- 
panied by  noble  thoughts. 

Sir  Philip  Sidney. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  131 

Niccolo  Jomelli  was  born  September  n, 
1714. 


September  Twelfth. 
Beauty  is  visible  harmony. 


Aristotle. 


Robert  Schumann  and  Clara  Wieck  were 
married  September  12,  1840. 

Theodore  Kullak  was  born  September  12, 
1818. 

Jean  Philip  Rameau  died  September  12, 
1764. 

September  Thirteenth. 

It  is  music's  lofty  mission  to  shed  light  on 

the  depths  of  the  human  heart. 

Schumann. 

Clara  Wieck  was  born  September  13, 
i8iq. 


IJ2  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


September  Fourteenth. 

An  artist  will  be  more  or  less  inspired  ac- 
cording to  how  his  thoughts  correspond  and 
awaken  in  him  his  own  sensitiveness. 

La  Vallee. 

Maria  Salvador  Cherubini  was  born  Sep- 
tember 14,  1760. 

Benjamin  Cooke  died  September  14, 1793. 


September  Fifteenth. 

The  Realistic  is  the  truth,  a  close  copy  of 

nature.     The  Ideal  is  what  a  man  wishes 

were  true. 

Van  Cleve. 

Pierre  Marie  Baillot  died  September  15, 
1842. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  133 


September  Sixteenth. 

It  is  an  indisputable  fact  that  in  the  union 
of  poetry  and  music  the  stronger  and  more 
immediate  effect  is  produced  by  the  latter. 

Ferdinand  Hi  Her. 

Ernest  Henri  Boulanger  was  born  Sep- 
tember 16,  181 5. 


September  Seventeenth. 

For  Orpheus'  lute  was  strong  with  poets' 

sinews, 
Whose  golden  touch  could  soften  steel  and 

stones. 

Shakespeare. 

Henri  Berton  was   born  September   17, 
1767. 


134  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


September  Eighteenth. 

Thus  did  Jubal  to  his  race  reveal 

Music,  their  larger  soul,  where  woe  and  weal, 

Filling  the  resonant  chords,  the  song,  the 

dance, 
Moved  with  a  wider- winged  utterance. 

George  Eliot. 


September  Nineteenth. 

Music  with  her  silver  sound 
With  speedy  help  doth  lend  redress. 

Shakespeare. 

James  Bartlemann  was  born  September 
19,  1769. 

Bartolommeo  Campagnoli  was  born  Sep- 
tember 19,  1 75 1. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  135 


September  Twentieth. 

It  hath  been  anciently  held  and  observed 
that  the  sense  of  hearing  and  the  kinds  of 
music  have  most  operation  upon  manners. 

Lord  Bacon. 


September  Twenty-first. 

Give  me  the  best  piano  in  Europe,  and 
listeners  who  understand  nothing  and  who 
do  not  sympathize  with  me  in  what  I  am 
doing — I  no  longer  feel  any  pleasure. 

Mozart. 


Septe?nber  Twenty -second. 

Is  not  the  precept  of  a  musician  to  fall 
from  a  discord  or  harsh  accord  alike  true  in 
affection  ?     Is  not  the  delight  of  quavering 


136  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

upon  a  stop  in  music  the  same  with  the  play- 
ing of  light  upon  the  water  ? 

Lord  Bacon. 


September  Twenty-third. 

Music  is  God's  best  gift  to  man,  the  only 
art  of  heaven  given  to  earth,  the  only  art  of 

earth  we  take  to  heaven. 

Landor. 

C6cile  Mendelssohn  died  September  23, 

1853- 

Maria  Felicita  Malibran  died  September 

23,  1836. 

Vincenzo  Bellini  died  September  23, 1835. 


September  Twenty -fourth 

There  are  few  artists  whom  I  respect  more 
than  a  first-class  amateur,  and  there  are  few 
that  I  respect  less  than  a  second-rate  one. 

Mendelssohn. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  1 37 


September  Twenty-fifth. 

Among  the  many  essential  qualifications  of 
the  musician  the  grandest  of  all  is  a  poetic 
imagination.  It  reveals  to  him  many  beauti- 
ful things  that  elude  the  casual  observer. 

Lovejoy. 

Jean  Philip  Rameau  was  born  September 
25,  1683. 

Gaetano  Donizetti  was  born  September 
25,  1798. 


September  Twe?ity -sixth. 

With  varied  fire 
He  roused  the  trumpet  and  the  martial  fife, 
Or  bade  the  lute  sweet  tenderness  inspire. 

Thomson. 


138  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

September  Twenty -seventh. 

But  few  artists  approach  the  perfection 
which  is  needed  in  unadorned  form  or  sim- 
ple tune. 

Christiani. 

Hermann  Wollenhaupt  was  born  Septem- 
ber 27,  1827. 

September  Twenty -eighth. 

To  the  true  artist  music  should  be  a  ne- 
cessity, and  not  merely  an  occupation.  He 
should   not  manufacture  music ;  he  should 

live  in  it. 

Robert  Fjanz. 

September  Twenty-ninth. 

True  virtuosity  gives  us  something  more 
than  mere  flexibility  and  execution.  A  man 
may  mirror  his  own  nature  in  his  playing. 

Schumann. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  139 

September  Thirtieth. 

We  live  in  this  world  in  order  always  to 
learn  industriously,  and  to  enlighten  each 
other  by  means  of  discussion,  and  to  strive 
vigorously  to  promote  the  progress  of  sci- 
ence and  the  fine  arts. 

Mozart. 

Mozart's  "  Magic  Flute  "  performed  first 
September  30,  1791. 


OCTOBER. 

Music  is  a  beautiful  and  glorious  gift  of  God. 

Praetorius. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  143 

October  First. 

Every  man  is  bound  to  cultivate  his  high- 
est gifts. 

Schumann. 

Pierre  Marie  Baillot  was  born  October  i, 
1771. 

Henri  Bertini  died  October  i,  1876. 
John  Blow  died  October  1,  1708. 

October  Second. 

Unless  you  are  suffused  with  beauty,  truth, 
wisdom,  goodness,  and  love,  abandon  the  hope 
that  the  ages  will  accept  you  as  an  artist. 

Sidney  Lanier. 

October  TJiird. 

Freedom  and  progress  are  our  true  aim 
in  the  world  of  art,  just  as  in  the  great  crea- 
tion at  large. 

Beethoven. 


144  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Waldemar  Bargiel  was  born  October  3, 
1828. 


October  Fourth. 

A  musician's  highest  aim  is  to  apply  his 

powers  to  religious  music. 

Schumann. 

Fanny  Persiani  was  born  October  4,  181 8. 

Stephen  Albert  Emory  was  born  October 
4,  1 84 1. 

Jacob  Blumenthal  was  born  October  4, 
1829. 

October  Fifth. 

What  is  Beethoven's  genius  until  Bee- 
thoven has  become  a  scientific  man  to  the 
extent  of  knowing  the  science  of  musical 
form,  of  orchestration,  and  of  harmony  ? 

Sidney  Lanier. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  1 45 


October  Sixth. 

Jenny  Lind  sang  Mendelssohn's  "  Hear 

my  Prayer "  so  exquisitely  that  none  who 

heard  it  can  ever  forget  the  impression  she 

created. 

Moscheles. 

Jenny  Lind  was  born  October  6,  1820. 
Schroeder-Devrient  was  born  October  6, 
1805. 


October  Seventh. 

Musical  art  recognizes  two  kinds  of  music 
— artistic  music,  the  production  of  the  artist, 
and  national  music,  the  production  of  the 
people.  If  we  liken  music  to  flowers  the 
former  would  be  the  cultivated,  the  latter 
the  wild  flowers. 

Chrlstiani. 


146  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


October  Eighth. 

Counterpoint  is  related  to  mathematics. 

A  fool  with  patience  becomes  a  respectable 

savant  in  that,  but  for  the  part  of  genius, 

melody,  it  has  no  rules. 

De  Stendhal. 

Francois  Adrien  Boildieu  died  October  8, 
1834. 

Heinrich  Wilhelm  Ernst  died  October  8, 
1865. 

October  Ninth. 

The  greater  the  advances  we  make  in  art 
the  less  we  are  satisfied  with  our  works  of 

an  early  date. 

Beethoven. 

Francois  Joseph  Campbell  died  October 
9,  1834. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


*47 


Saint-Saens  was  born  October  9,  1835. 
Giuseppe  Verdi  was  born  October  9,  18 14. 


October  Tenth. 

Playing  in  public  from  memory,  whether 
it  be  done  out  of  charlatanism  or  daring, 
is  always  a  proof   of   uncommon  musical 

powers. 

Schumann. 


October  Eleventh. 

Acquire  an  early  knowledge  of  directing, 
watch  good  directors  closely,  and  form  a 
habit  of  directing  with  them  silently  and  to 
yourself.     This  brings  clearness  into  you. 

Schumann. 

Theodore  Thomas  was  born  October  11, 


148  THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK. 

October  Twelfth. 

Melody  is  the  golden  thread  running 
through  the  maze  of  tones,  by  which  the  ear 
is  guided  and  the  heart  reached. 

Christiani. 

John  L.  Hatton  was  born  October  12, 
1809. 

October  Thirteenth. 

In  the  abstract  we  may  regard  melody  as 
the  moving  element ;  harmony,  on  the  other 
hand,  as  the  stable  element  in  music. 

Moritz  Hauptmann. 

Moritz  Hauptmann  was  born  October  13, 
1792. 

October  Fourteenth. 

The  worth  of  art  appears  most  eminent  in 
music,  since  it  requires  no  material,  no  sub- 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  149 

ject-matter,  whose  effect  must  be  deducted ; 

it  is  wholly  form  and  power,  and  it  raises 

and  ennobles  whatever  it  expresses. 

Goethe. 


October  Fifteenth. 

The  artist  never  seeks  to  represent  the 

positive  truth,  but  the  idealized  image  of 

the  truth. 

Bulwer. 

William  Alexander  Barrett  was  born  Octo- 
ber 15,  1836. 

Madame  Caradori  Allan  died  October  15, 
1865. 

Alexander  Dreyschock  was  born  October 
15,  1818. 

October  Six teen th. 

The  older  I  become,  so  much  the  more 
clearly  do  I  perceive  how  important  it  is 


150  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

first  to  learn,  and  then  to  form  opinions — 

not  the  latter  before  the  former ;  also  not 

both  at  once. 

Mendelssohn. 

John  Francis  Barnett  was  born  October 
16,  1837. 


October  Seventeenth. 

In  every  piece  we  find,  in  his  own  refined 
hand,  written  in  pearls :  "  This  is  by  Fred- 
erick Chopin."  We  recognize  him  even  in 
his  pauses,  and  by  his  impetuous  respiration. 
He  is  the  boldest,  the  proudest  poet  soul  of 

to-day. 

Schumann. 

Frederick  Chopin  died  October  17,  1848. 
Johann  Nepomuk  Hummel  died  October 

*7>  i»37- 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  151 

October  Eighteenth. 

All  that  is  mortal  and  perishable  will 
gradually  weary  us ;  truth  alone  will  endure. 

Merz. 

Etienne  Henri  Mehul  died  October  18, 
1817. 

October  Nineteenth. 

If  the  composer  can  only  move  the  imag- 
inative power  of  his  hearers,  and  call  forth 
some  one  image,  some  one  thought — it  mat- 
ters not  what — he  has  attained  his  object. 

Mendelssohn. 

October  Twentieth. 

Many  critics  mistake  the  rules  of  the  the- 
ory of  music  for  the  rules  by  which  to  criti- 
cize the  beautiful  in  it. 

Merz. 


152  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

October  Twenty-first. 

The  sole  aim  of  the  composer  should  be 

the  progress  of  his  art. 

Gluck. 

Abb6  Giuseppe  Baini  was  born  October 

«>  I775- 

Alexander  Choron  was  born  October  21, 

1772. 

Michael  William  Balfe  died  October  21, 

1870. 

October  Twenty -second. 

No  amount  of  adverse  criticism  can  de- 
tract in  any  way  from  the  intrinsic  value  of 

a  composition. 

Lndwig  Spohr. 

Ludwig  Spohr  died  October  22,  1859. 
Jean  Ancot  was  born  October  22,  1779. 
Franz  Liszt  was  born  October  22,  181 1. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  I  53 

Leopold  Damrosch  was  born  October  22, 
1832. 

October  Tiventy-third. 

Just  as  a  writer  who  speaks  to  the  heart 
is  sure  to  please,  so  is  a  composer  who  gives 
the  player  something  which  he  cannot  only 
play  and  enjoy  himself,  but  make  others  en- 
joy too. 

Zelter. 


October  Twenty -fourth. 

In  many  respects  Wagner  resembles  Na- 
poleon III.  Like  him  he  always  had  faith 
in  his  work,  notwithstanding  the  most  ad- 
verse circumstances.  All  the  means  which 
could  help  him  toward  the  goal  of  his  as- 
pirations he  has  employed  with  an  energy 
which  no  musician  has  possessed  before  him 

to  the  same  degree. 

Ferdinand  Hitler. 


154  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Ferdinand  Hiller  was  born  October  24, 
1811. 
Alfred  James  Eyre  was  born  October  24, 

October  Twenty -fifth. 

Every  artist  of  genius  breathes  into  his 
work  an  unexpressed  idea  which  speaks  to 
our  feelings  even  before  it  can  be  defined. 

Liszt. 

Ernest  Sivori  was  born  October  25,  18 15. 
Alexandre  Georges  Bizet  was  born  Octo- 
ber 25,  1838. 


October  Twenty-sixth. 

If  our  art  is  not  to  sink  entirely  to  the 

level  of  trade,  commerce,  and  fashion,  the 

training  for  it  must  be  complete,  intelligent, 

and  really  artistic. 

Merz. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  155 

Karl  Ferdinand  Becker  died  October  26, 
1877. 

Henry  Smart  was  born  October  26,  181 3. 


October  Twenty-seventh. 

Literature  is  the  highest  of  the  arts,  be- 
cause its  power  of  expression  is  the  greatest. 
The  effect  of  music  is  more  intense  at  a 
given  moment,  but  its  range  is  not  so  wide, 

nor  its  effect  so  enduring. 

Sill. 

Niccold  Paganini  was  born  October  27, 
1785- 

October  Twenty -eighth. 

The  fundamental  evil  in  music  is  the 
necessity  of  reproduction  of  its  artistic  crea- 
tions by  performance.  Were  it  as  easy  to 
learn  to  read  music  as  words,  the  sonatas  of 


156  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Beethoven  would  have  the  popularity  of  the 

poems  of  Schiller. 

Ferdinand  Hiller. 

Henri  Bertini  was  born  October  28,  1798. 


October  Twenty-ninth. 

Work  alone  praises  or  condemns  its  mas- 
ters, and  I  therefore  measure  every  one  by 

that  standard. 

Johann  Sebastian  Bach. 


October  Thirtieth. 

The  pleasure  which  the  work  of  a  musi- 
cian affords  you  is  his  very  life-blood;  the 
trouble  it  has  cost  him  you  do  not  know. 
He  gives  you  his  very  best :  the  essence  of 
his  life,  the  outflow  of  his  genius,  and  yet 
you  grudge  him  a  simple  wreath  of  flowers. 

Schumann. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  I  57 


October  Thirty-first. 

The  happiest  genius  will  hardly  succeed 
by  nature  and  instinct  alone  in  rising  to  the 
sublime.  Art  is  art ;  he  who  has  not  thought 
it  out  has  no  right  to  call  himself  an  artist. 

Goethe. 

Richard  Edwards  died  October  31,  1566. 
Rudolph  Willmers  was  born  October  31, 
1821. 


NOVEMBER. 

Under  heaven  there  is  but  one  thing  we  ought  to 

bow  to — genius  ;  and  only  one  thing  before  which  we 

ought  to  kneel — goodness. 

Victor  Hugo. 


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November  First. 

All  the  arts  flow  from  the  same  source. 
It  is  the  idea  embodied  in  a  work  of  art, 
and  not  the  mode  of  enunciating  it,  that  de- 
termines its  rank  in  the  scale  of  beauty. 

Franz  Liszt. 

Gioacchimo  Rossini  died  November  i, 
1868. 


November  Second. 

Jenny  Lind's  true  spell  consisted,  in  my 
opinion,  in  three  things :  in  the  perfection 
of  her  technical  culture — perfection  to  an 
extent  that  caused  the  most  finished  art  to 
appear  the  most  finished  nature. 

Elise  Polko. 

Jenny  Lind  died  November  2,  1887. 


[62  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR   BOOK. 


November  Third. 

November  3,  1836:  Mendelssohn  played 
Beethoven's  "  G  Major  Concerto "  to-day 
with  a  perfection  and  power  that  carried 
everything  before  it. 

— From  Henrietta  Voighfs  Diary. 

Vincenzo  Bellini  was  born  November  3, 
1802. 


November  Fourth. 

It   is  a  charming  test  of  Mendelssohn's 

heart  that  all  the  friendships  he  ever  formed 

endured  to  the  end  of  his  life. 

Elise  Polko. 

Felix  Mendelssohn-Bartholdy  died  Novem- 
ber 4,  1847. 


THE.  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  163 

November  Fifth. 

The  soul  that  becomes  discouraged  in  the 

presence  of  real  greatness  will  never  become 

thoroughly  artistic. 

Mendelssohn. 

November  Sixth. 

Paderewski  is  an  artist  by  the  grace  of 
God,  a  phenomenal  and  inspired  player. 

William  Mason. 

Ignaz  Paderewski  was  born  November  6, 
i860. 

Bartolommeo  Campagnoli  died  November 
6,  1827. 

November  Seventh. 

I  now  feel  more  vividly  than  ever  what  a 
heavenly  calling  art  is,  and  for  this  also  I 


164  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

have  to  thank  my  parents.  Just  when  all 
else  which  ought  to  interest  the  mind  appears 
so  repugnant  and  empty,  the  smallest  real 
service  to  art  lays  hold  of  your  inmost 
thoughts,  leading  you  so  far  away  from 
town  and  country,  and  from  earth  itself, 
that  it  is,  indeed,  a  blessing  sent  by  God. 

Mendelssohn. 


November  Eighth. 

Freedom  of  spirit  and  expression  are  not 

possible  but  with  nimbleness  and  sureness  of 

the  fingers. 

Von  Weber. 

November  Ninth. 

Among  the  various  things  which  are  suit- 
able for  man's  recreation  and  pleasure,  music 
is  the  first,  and  leads  us  to  the  belief  that  it 
is  a  gift  of  God  set  apart  for  this  purpose. 

Calvin. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  165 


November  Tenth. 

And  ever  against  eating  cares 

Lap  me  in  soft  Lydian  airs, 

Married  to  immortal  verse 

Such  as  the  melting  soul  may  pierce. 

Untwisting  all  the  chains  that  tie 

The  hidden  soul  of  harmony. 

Milton. 


November  Eleventh. 

In  the  works  of  Beethoven  are  to  be  found 
gigantic  and  sublime  formula; ;  those  of 
Haydn  contain  a  melodic  sweetness  mixed 
with  artifices  which  are  always  agreeable ; 
while  Mozart  showed  his  unequaled  genius 
in  everything.  I  can  only  compare  them 
to  Michael  Angelo,  Guido,  and  Raphael. 

Pacini. 


1 66  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


November  Twelfth. 

Musical  criticism,  and  criticism  generally, 
is,  with  rare  exceptions,  no  more  than  the  ex- 
pression of  a  liking  or  disliking  which  has 
its  origin  in  temperament,  habit,  and  educa- 
tion. 

Niecks. 


November  Thirteenth. 

The  style  of  a  writer  is  almost  always  the 
faithful  representative  of  his  mind.  There- 
fore, if  any  man  wishes  to  write  a  clear  style 
let  him  begin  by  making  his  thoughts  clear, 
and  if  any  would  write  a  noble  style  let  him 

first  possess  a  noble  soul. 

Goethe. 

Louis  Jacques  Lefebvre  W61y  was  born 
November  13,  181 7. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  167 


November  Fourteenth. 

Always  play  as  if  a  master  heard  you. 

Schumann. 

Fanny  Cecile  Mendelssohn  was  born 
November  14,  1805. 

Ignaz  Pleyel  died  November  14,  1831. 

Johann  Nepomuk  Hummel  was  born 
November  14,  1776. 

Gasparo  Luigi  Spontini  was  born  Novem- 
ber 14,  1774. 

Albert  Jungmann  was  born  November  14, 
1814. 

Johann  Georg  Leopold  Mozart  was  born 
November  14,  17 19. 


November  Fifteenth. 

The  works  of  all  beginners  teem  with  rem- 
iniscences :    every  composition   reveals  the 


1 68  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

model  form  from  which  it  is  derived ;  and  it 
is  only  much  later  that  they  learn  to  act  in- 
dependently, and  to  strive  for  the  ideal. 

Von  Weber. 

William  Horsley  was  born  November  15, 
1774. 

November  Sixteenth. 

If  we  look  around  in  modern  music  we 

will  find  that  we  have  a  terrible  deal  of  mind 

and  astonishingly  few  ideas. 

Ambros. 

Rudolph  Kreutzer  was  born  November 
16,  1766. 

Friedrich  Wilhelm  Kucken  was  born 
November  16,  181  o. 


November  Seventeenth. 

A  critic  is  justified  in  seeking  and  pro- 
nouncing the  truth  without  reserve.     It  is 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  1 69 

not  his  duty  to  consider  whom  he  pleases 

or  offends  by  his  candor. 

Ambros. 

August  Wilhelm  Ambros  was  born  Novem- 
ber 17,  1816. 


November  Eighteenth. 

The  noisiest  and  most  complicated  music 
has  melody,  but  it  may  be  so  laden  with  ex- 
ternal flourishes,  or  so  obscured  by  internal 
changes,  that  few  only  can  detect  and  follow 

the  golden  thread. 

Christiani. 

Sir  Henry  Rowley  Bishop  was  born  No- 
vember 18,  1786. 


November  Nineteenth, 

Schubert's  songs :  Beautiful  as  are  his  sym- 
phonies, and  great  as  was  the  treasure  he 


170  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

bequeathed  to  the  world  in  his  instrumental 
works,  his  most  important  contribution  to 
musical  progress  is  to  be  found  in  his  songs, 
of  which  he  wrote  some  six  hundred. 

Fillmore. 

Franz  Peter  Schubert  died  November  19, 
1828. 


November  Twentieth. 

Beethoven  rose  so  far  above  his  fellow- 
men  that  he  saw  seas  and  countries,  yes, 
suns  and  stars,  which  we  cannot  yet  behold. 

Merz. 

Beethoven's  "  Fidelio  "  was  given  first  No- 
vember 20,  1805. 

John  Wall  Calcott  was  born  November 
20,  1766. 

Anton  Rubinstein  died  November  20, 
1894. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  I  7  I 


November  Twenty-first. 

Christianity  is  the  only  soil  in  which  music 
could  grow  and  develop  herself  with  a  splen- 
dor never  conceived  by  the  ancients. 

Ernst  Pauer. 

Henry  Purcell  died  November  21,  1695. 


November  Twenty -second. 

St.  Cecilia's  Day : 

At  last  divine  Cecilia  came, 

Inventress  of  the  vocal  frame. 

The  sweet  enthusiast  from  her  sacred  store 
Enlarged  the  former  narrow  bounds, 
And  added  length  to  solemn  sounds, 

With  Nature's  mother- wit  and  arts  unknown 
before. 

Dry  den. 


172  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

November  Twenty -third. 

Unfortunately  the  majority  of  people  are 

more    influenced   by    external   appearances 

than  by  internal  worth.     And  so  it  is  that 

we  have  a  crowd  of  piano-players  for  whom 

technique  is  the  chief  ambition,  and  a  large 

number  of  amateurs  who  consider  it  more 

desirable  to  play  runs  and  passages  very  fast 

and  loudly  than  to  play  them  clearly  and  in 

a  moderate  tempo. 

Christiani. 

November  Twenty -fourth. 

In  Chopin's  compositions  boldness  is  al- 
ways justified ;  richness,  often  exuberance, 
never  interferes  with  clearness ;  singularity 
never  degenerates  into  the  uncouth  and  fan- 
tastic ;  the  sculpturing  is  never  disordered ; 
the  luxury  of  ornament  never  overloads  the 
chaste  eloquence  of  the  principal  lines. 

Franz  Liszt. 


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November  Twenty-fifth. 

The  operas  of  Gluck  can  only  be  studied 

as  they  deserve  by  being  heard  and  seen, 

and,  moreover,  under  conditions  of  careful 

and  magnificent  presentation. 

Charley. 

Christoph  W.  Gluck  died  November  25, 
1787. 

Grisi's  voice  Is  deliciously  pure  and  young, 
and  she  sings  as  if  she  loves  her  art  and 

has  its  resources  at  her  feet. 

Charley. 

Giulia  Grisi  died  November  25,  1869. 

November  Twenty-sixth. 

When  I  sat  at  my  old  worm-eaten  piano 
I  envied  no  king  in  his  happiness. 

Haydn. 

Franz  Joseph  Haydn  was  married  to  Anna 
Kellar  November  26,  1760. 


174  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK'. 


November  Twenty -seventh. 

Whoever  knows  me  knows  that  I  owe 
much  to  Sebastian  Bach,  that  I  have  studied 
him  thoroughly  and  well,  and  that  I  acknow- 
ledge him  only  as  my  model. 

Haydn. 

Adolph  Marx  was  born  November  27, 
1799. 


November  Twenty -eighth. 

With  Ferdinand  Ries  I  pass  very  musical 
hours.  Kindred  sympathies  are  fostered 
and  a  lasting  friendship  promoted  by  a  pro- 
found veneration  for  Beethoven,  the  master 
of  Ries. 

Moscheles' 's  Diary. 

Ferdinand  Ries  was  born  November  28, 
1784. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  I  75 


November  Twenty-ninth. 

He  [Donizetti]  is  remarkable  as  an  in- 
stance of  freshness  of  fancy  brought  on  by 
incessant  manufacture.  Such  a  change  is 
almost  exclusively  confined  to  Italian  genius 
in  its  workings.     It  learns  and  grows  while 

creating. 

Chorley. 

Gaetano  Donizetti  was  born  November 
29,  1779. 


November  Thirtieth. 

Rubinstein  occupies  a  unique  position 
among  all  his  contemporaries.  As  a  pianist 
he  holds  perhaps  the  first  place  since  Liszt's 
death.  At  the  same  time,  as  a  composer,  not 
alone  for  the  piano,  but  in  a  more  marked 


176  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

degree  as  a  writer  of  large  works  for  the 

orchestra   and    the   operatic   stage,  he   has 

made  an  extraordinary  success. 

Upton. 

Anton  Gregor  Rubinstein  was  born  No 
vember  30,  1830. 


DECEMBER. 

Till  at  the  last  she  set  herself  to  man, 
Like  perfect  music  unto  noble  words. 

Tennyson. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  I  79 

December  First. 

A  distinguished  philosopher  spoke  of  archi- 
tecture as  frozen  music,  and  his  assertion 
caused  many  to  shake  their  heads.  We  be- 
lieve this  really  beautiful  idea  could  not  be 
better  reintroduced  than  by  calling  architec- 
ture silent  music. 

Goethe. 

December  Second. 

If  in  spite  of  all  the  abuse  and  ill  treat- 
ment to  which  it  is  subjected  the  noble  art 
of  music  never  ceases  to  charm  and  edify 
us,  it  only  attests  its  unfathomable  and  ever- 
lasting grandeur. 

Ferdinand  Hitler. 

December  Third. 

Genius  is  the  most  beautiful  gift  with  which 
nature  favors  mankind  from  time  to  time. 


180  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

Through  it  we  are  allowed  to  enjoy  what  is 
most  sublime — self-oblivion  in  a  loftier  life. 

Hiller. 


December  Fourth. 

To  describe  a  scene  is  the  province  of  the 
painter.  The  poet,  too,  has  the  advantage 
over  me,  for  his  range  is  less  limited  than 
mine.  On  the  other  hand,  my  sphere  ex- 
tends to  regions  which  to  them  are  not  easily 
accessible. 

Beethoven. 


Deceinber  Fifth. 

O  Mozart !  If  I  could  instil  into  the 
soul  of  every  lover  of  music  the  admiration 
I  have  for  his  matchless  works,  all  countries 
would  seek  to  be  possessed  of  so  great  a 
treasure. 

Haydn. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  l8l 

Wolfgang  Amadeus  Mozart  died  Decem- 
ber 5,  1791. 

Karl  Friedrich  Ludwig  Nohl  was  born 
December  5,  1831. 

December  Sixth. 

The  person  who  is  unacquainted  with  the 
best  things  among  modern  literary  produc- 
tions is  looked  upon  as  uncultivated.  We 
should  be  at  least  as  advanced  as  this  in 
music. 

Schumann. 

Luigi  Lablache  was  born  December  6, 
1794. 

Giovanni  Pacini  died  December  6,  1867. 

December  Seventh. 

There  are  many  things  in  music  which 
must  be  imagined  without  being  heard.  It 
is  the  intelligent  hearers  who  are  endowed 


1 82  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

with  that  imagination  whom  we  should  en- 
deavor to  please  especially. 

J.  Emanuel  Back. 

Stephen  Glover  died  December  7,  1870. 

Ludwig  Schunke  died  December  7,  1834. 
■  Karl  Anton  Florian  Eckert  was  born  De- 
cember 7,  1820. 

December  Eighth. 

No  kind  of  pianoforte  music  contains  so 

much  that  is  so  excellent  as  the  study,  the 

etude.     The  reasons  are  simple :  its  form  is 

one  of  the  easiest  and  most  attractive,  and 

its  aim  is  so  clear  and  firmly  fixed  that  it  is 

impossible  to  fail  in  it. 

Schumann. 

December  Ninth. 

The  elements  of  orchestration  are  those  of 
painting.    The  composition  per  se  represents 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  1 83 

the  design  ;  the  melody  the  outline  ;  harmony 

the  light  and  shade  j  and  instrumentation  the 

coloring. 

J.  Raff. 


December  Tenth. 

Harmony  in  music  does  not  consist  merely 
in  the  construction  of  concordant  sounds, 
but  in  their  mutual  relations,  their  proper 
succession  in  what  I  should  call  their  audi- 
ble reflex. 

Delacroix. 

Wilhelm  Kuhe  was  born  December  10, 
1823. 

December  Eleventh. 

Music  is  at  once  a  sentiment  and  a  sci- 
ence ;  it  demands  of  him  who  cultivates  it,  be 
he  executant  or  composer,  natural  inspira- 


184  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

tion  and  a  knowledge  which  is  only  to  be 

acquired  by  protracted  studies  and  profound 

meditations. 

Berlioz. 

Hector  Berlioz  was  born  December  11, 
1803. 

Karl  Friedrich  Zelter  was  born  December 
11,  1758. 


December  Twelfth. 

Chopin  spoke  the  language  of  the  piano. 
His  pieces  are  so  idiomatic  that  they  cannot 
be  translated  into  orchestral  language  any 
more  than  Heine's  lyrics  can  be  translated 
into  English.  Chopin  exhausted  the  possi- 
bilities of  the  pianoforte,  and  the  piano  ex- 
hausts the  possibilities  of  Chopin's  composi- 
tions. 

Finck. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  1 85 


December  Thirteenth. 

I  hope  you  will  like  my  "  Lobesang  "  or 
"  Song  of  Praise."  It  is  a  kind  of  universal 
thanksgiving  on  the  words  of  the  last  psalm : 
"  Let  everything  that  hath  breath  praise  the 
Lord."  The  instruments  begin  with  a  sym- 
phony of  three  movements,  and  the  voices 
take  it  up  and  continue  it  with  different 
words,  solos  and  choruses,  till  all  unite  again 

in  the  same  words. 

Mendelssohn. 


December  Fourteenth. 

Study  only  the  best,  for  life  is  too  short 

to  study  everything. 

J.  Emanuel  Bach. 

J.  Emanuel  Bach  died  December  14, 1788. 


1 86  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


December  Fifteenth. 

Every  person  has  a  lead  with  which  he 
attempts  to  measure  the  depth  of  art.  The 
string  of  some  is  long,  that  of  others  is  very 
short ;  yet  each  thinks  he  has  reached  the 
bottom,  while  in  reality  art  is  as  a  bottom- 
less deep  that  none  have  as  yet  fully  ex- 
plored, and  probably  none  ever  will.     Art 

is  endless. 

Schopen  h  auer. 

S.  Mercadante  died  December  15,  1870. 


December  Sixteenth. 

Uninterrupted  harmony  would  soon  be- 
come   as    fatiguing    as    constant    sunshine. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  1 87 

Harmony  after  discord  is  a  new  pleasure ; 

sunshine  after  rain  gives  new  enjoyment. 

Christiani. 

Francois  Adrien  Boildieu  was  born  De- 
cember 16,  1775. 

Johann  Adolf  Hasse  died  December  16, 

1783. 

December  Seventeenth. 

Music  is  the  mediator  between  the  spiri- 
tual and  sensual  life.  Although  the  spirit  be 
not  master  of  that  which  it  creates  through 
music,  yet  it  is  blessed  in  this  recreation, 
which,  like  every  creation  of  art,  is  mightier 

than  the  artist. 

Beethoven. 

Ludwig  van  Beethoven  was  born  Decem- 
ber 17,  1770. 

Domenico  Cimarosa  was  born  December 
17,  1749. 


l88  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


December  Eighteenth. 

How  very  differently  does  he  create  whose 
inner  ear  is  judge  of  the  ideas  which  he  sim- 
ultaneously conceives  and  criticizes  !  This 
mental  ear  grasps  and  holds  fast  the  musical 
vision,  and  is  a  divine  secret  belonging  to 
music  alone,  incomprehensible  to  the  lay- 
man. 

Von  Weber. 

Karl  Maria  von  Weber  was  born  Decem- 
ber 1 8,  1786. 

Louis  Moreau  Gottschalk  died  December 
18,  1869. 


December  Nineteenth. 

I  require  no  undercurrent  of  thought  when 
I  hear  music,  which  is  not  to  me  "a  mere 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  189 

medium  to  elevate  the  mind  to  piety,"  as 
they  say  here,  but  a  distinct  language  speak- 
ing plainly  to  me ;  for  though  the  sense  is 
expressed  by  the  words,  it  is  equally  con- 
tained in  the  music.  This  is  the  case  with 
the  "  Passion  "  of  Sebastian  Bach. 
Mendelssohn,  extract  of  a  letter 

to  Zelter/rom  Rome  in  1831. 

John  Ella  was  bora  December  19,  1802. 


December  Twentieth. 

Exercise  without  consciousness  is  not  ar- 
tistic skill ;  it  is  only  the  working  of  the  in- 
stinct, which  will  always  make  the  want  of 
a  complete  education  sensible.  The  spiritual 
thought  cannot  do  without  the  form,  and  it 
is  this  which  must  be  recognized  and  learned. 

Richter. 


190  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

December  Twenty-first. 

There  is  no  sweeter  consolation  in  misfor- 
tune than  the  pursuit  of  art,  for  the  mind 
employed  in  acquiring  it  sails  secretly  past 

its  mishaps. 

Amp  his. 

Ernst  Pauer  was  born  December  21,  1826. 
Franz  Abt  was  born  December  21,  18 19. 
Theodore  Hagen  died  December  21, 1871. 


December  Twenty-second. 

Although  woman  has  never  made  an  epoch 
in  musical  art,  it  must  be  said  that  she  has 
done  a  very  important  work  in  its  develop- 
ment. Though  she  has  never  been  a  great 
composer,  she  has  surely  been  great  in  the 

interpretation  of  art-works. 

Anon. 

Theresa  Carreno  was  born  December  22, 
i853- 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  191 

December  Twenty -third. 

The  value  of  the  sketches  made  by  Chopin's 
extremely  delicate  pencil  has  not  yet  been 
acknowledged  and  emphasized  sufficiently. 
It  has  become  customary  in  our  days  to  re- 
gard as  great  composers  only  those  who  have 
written  at  least  half  a  dozen  operas,  as  many 
oratorios,  and  several  symphonies. 

Franz  Liszt. 


December  Twenty -fourth. 

A  player  may  be  very  glib  with  finger-pas- 
sages. They  all  in  time  grow  commonplace, 
and  must  be  changed.  Only  where  such 
facility  serves  higher  ends  is  it  of  any  worth. 

Schumann. 

Giovanni  Bottisini  was  born  December 
24,  1823. 

Jules  Benedict  was  born  December  24, 
1804. 


I92  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 

December  Twenty-fifth. 

Christmas  Day: 

Then  let  us  sing  the  anthem 
The  angels  once  did  sing ; 
Until  the  music  of  love  and  praise 
O'er  the  whole  wide  world  will  ring 
Gloria  in  excelsis ! 

Sing  it,  sinful  earth, 
In  excelsis  Deo  ! 

For  the  Saviour's  birth. 

Father  Ryan. 

John  Christmas  Beckwith  was  born  De 
cember  25,  1759. 

December  Twenty-sixth. 

I  am  sure  if  anything  on  earth  can  give 

an  idea  of  the  angelic  choir,  it  must  be  the 

music  of  Palestrina. 

Baroness  Bunsen. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK.  1 93 

Franz  Hunten  was  born  December  26, 
!793- 

December  Twenty -seventh. 

Schubert  was  like  a  gardener  bewildered 

with  the  luxuriant  growth  springing  up  around 

him.     As  fast  as  his  ideas  arose  they  were 

poured  forth  on  paper.     He  was  too  rich 

for  himself — his  fancy  outgrew  his  powers 

of  arrangement. 

Haweis. 


December  Twenty-eighth. 

Passions,  however  violent,  should  never 
be  portrayed  in  all  their  ugliness ;  and  even 
when  describing  the  most  horrible  situations 
music  should  never  offend,  but  always  please 
the  ear — in  short,  always  remain  music. 

Mozart. 


194  THE  MUSICIAN'S    YEAR  BOOK. 


December  Twenty -ninth. 

However  so-called  sober-minded  musi- 
cians may  disparage  consummate  brilliancy, 
it  is  none  the  less  true  that  every  genuine 

artist  has  an  instinctive  desire  for  it. 

Liszt. 

William  Crotch  died  December  29,  1847. 


Dece?nber  Thirtieth. 

In  Mendelssohn  we  admire  most  his  great 
talent  for  form,  his  power  of  appropriating 
all  that  is  most  piquant,  his  charmingly 
beautiful  workmanship,  his  delicate  sensitive- 
ness, and  his  earnest,  I  might  almost  say  his 

impassioned,  equanimity. 

Heinrich  Heine. 


THE  MUSICIAN'S   YEAR  BOOK.  1 95 


December  Thirty -first. 

The  world  is  full  of  musical  treasures,  but 

we  are  not  being  enriched  by  these  to  half 

the  extent  we  ought  to  be. 

Booth. 


THE  LIBRARY 
UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 

Santa  Barbara 


HIS  BOOK  IS  DUE  ON  THE  LAST  DATE 
STAMPED  BELOW. 


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